Yesterday I was in the mall, depressed because I couldn’t find a dress I liked for a reasonable price (when did dresses get so expensive!), so I went into a bookstore to cheer myself up. Much to my surprise, there on the new book rack was Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I thought the original [...]
Archives for August 2008
The Order of Odd-Fish
by James Kennedy
Flamboyant, aging actress Lily Larouche returns from a 40-year absence to her ruby palace in the desert with no idea where she has been for the last 40 years and finds a baby in her washing machine with a note that says: “This is Jo. Please take care of her. But Beware. This [...]
Smart Move, Sell-Out, or Somewhere in Between
So the other day we were unpacking new books that had just come into our library and were commenting on how the new Hannah Montana novel was in hardback. Usually those TV show spin-off books are small paperbacks, but not Hannah Montana! Then I noticed the author’s name: Suzanne Harper. I was shocked and sure [...]
Prom Dates from Hell
by Rosemary Clement-Moore
Maggie Quinn does not do prom. Sarcasm, yes; journalism, yes; prom, NO! But strange things begin to happen after she turns down an invitation to prom from the school dork, Stanley Dozer, then immediately rescues him from the school’s elite, the Jocks and the Jessicas, by photographing their cruelty toward Dozer and threatening [...]
Yowza
So I was reading through blogs that I haven’t visited in awhile and came across this post by Miss Erin. Miss Erin went to her local Breaking Dawn release party and interviewed Twilight series fans. What scared me (though honestly didn’t completely shock me) was the quote from Twilight fan Katrina who said, “The only [...]
Reading Rut
Ack! I am having an awful time reading this month and it’s driving me crazy. I want to read but nothing will keep my attention (well, almost nothing — I recently finished Prom Dates from Hell…post forthcoming — I am also in a posting rut). Anybody else ever have this problem? It’s really annoying. I [...]
L. J. Smith and the Night World
In the long, long ago when I was a teenager (ok, so not that long ago) I was in love with a series by L. J. Smith called the Night World. Recently I have had several L. J. Smith encounters, not with the actual person but with her work. In the bookstore I noticed that [...]
Oprah and Teen Lit
From Librarilly Blonde: Oprah is promoting some seriously good teen lit. Check out the list on her website for readers 12 and up. I haven’t read everything on the list but I’ve heard great things about most of the titles I haven’t read…I really need to get around to reading Gary D. Schmidt. And can [...]
RITA Awards
I just found out that Silent in the Grave won a RITA Award for Best Book with Strong Romantic Elements. Also, a favorite teen fantasy book of mine, Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr, won Best Young Adult Romance. Check out these titles, all the winners, and the runner’s up on the RITA Awards page.
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Read-a-like for Deanna Raybourn
For those, like me, who enjoyed Lady Julia Grey you will be happy to know that there is a series that is similar (eerily similar, I think). Author Tasha Alexander has written three books about Lady Emily Bromley, check them out on her website. I picked up the first title, And Only to Deceive but [...]
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