Stay Tuned
In October I’ll be taking a break from blogging to enjoy my new little girl. To celebrate her coming into the world, I’ll be having some great giveaways! Stay tuned. August is going to be a fun month!
Month: July 2012
TEMPEST
Goodreads blurb: The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun. […]
YA the Genre
Yesterday, I was in two different libraries–I had my books reserved at the wrong one. One thing I noticed was the YA section wasn’t broken down into categories: SF, Mystery, Horror ect. Some of the books had additional labels above the YA that would say Historical, SF ect but not all. I wondered why that […]
Under the Never Sky
Goodreads blurb: Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse. Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland – known as The Death Shop – […]
Third Person that’s Like First
Have you ever read a book written in third person that feels like first? I have and it’s one interesting read. One of the reasons that most YA tends to be written in first person POV is because it’s immediate. You can connect to the character where as third tends to be distance. One of my […]
Long vs Short
Lately I’ve been reading a lot of contemporary novels which mean I finish them quick–sometimes one day. Now I’m in the middle of reading Grave Mercy which is about 533 pages. The story is intriguing and I definitely love the main character Ismae, but I keep looking at my bookmark and thinking I have so […]
RTW: Movie > Book
It’s been awhile since I’ve participated in YA Highway’s RTW. Here is this week’s post: What movie have you seen that actually (gasp!) improved on the book? This is actually an easy one. LOTR: The Two Towers. Shocked? Well, I have a very good reason. My FAVORITE scene in the movie is when the elves […]
OHHHHH YEAAAHHHH
It’s 4th of July and do you want to know what I’m doing? Eating all the red pepper hummus I just bought before my husband gets up. Yesterday at work all I could think about was the hummus and naan bread in the fridge. When I came home, popped in a movie and went to […]