What I was reviewing in May 2009: Being Bindy by Alyssa Brugman. From my review: “Bindy is experiencing the worst. year. ever. Yet she manages to get by. For one thing, while Bindy may not be as “grown up” as Janey and her new group of friends, Bindy doesn’t care. When things began going bad [...]
Doll Bones by Holly Black. McElderry Books. 2013. Reviewed from ARC from publisher. The Plot: Zach, Poppy, and Alice get together nearly everyday to play an elaborate game with dolls, action figures, and stories that grow and twist and turn, all related to the “Great Queen” doll that Poppy’s mother keeps locked in a cabinet. [...]
I’ll be attending BEA later this month! Part of the reason I’m excited about attending BEA is that I haven’t been able to attend for the last three years because of various work commitments. Part of the reason I’m excited is, well, BEA! BEA has a whole page explaining why librarians and educators would be [...]
Quick recap: Show Me The Awesome: 30 Days of Self-Promotion is being co-hosted by Sophie Brookover, Kelly Jensen & myself for people in library land to share the things they’ve done. It can be about promoting something specific, or about how to promote, or why to promote. The image for Show Me The Awesome is [...]
Time to flashback to what I reviewed in May 2011! Real Live Boyfriends (Yes, boyfriends, plural. If my life weren’t complicated, I wouldn’t be Ruby Oliver) by E. Lockhart. From my review: “Ruby Oliver is now a senior and has a real! live! boyfriend! Everything is terrific, until Noel goes away to visit his brother [...]
The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. 2013. Reviewed from ARC from publisher. Book website. First in a trilogy. The Plot: It is months after the aliens first came, the Others, and sixteen year old Cassie Sullivan is huddled in a tent, alone with just her baby [...]
Like the logo? Or, rather, LOVE the logo? A big thanks to John LeMasney via lemasney.com for the terrific logo; and if you’re using the image with your 30 Days post, please remember to give John credit! As you’ve figured out, it is May which means that it is the start of Show Me The [...]
Last week, I reviewed 17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma (Dutton, 2013). That review was for people who, well, don’t want to know too much about a book going in. So, short version of 17 & Gone for those readers is that Lauren is seeing ghosts, including a girl who may still be alive, [...]
Remember my self promotion post from a few days back, about Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop Culture to Connect to Your Whole Community AKA the book that Sophie Brookover and I wrote? And I said how Sophie and I have contributed a couple of guest posts to our publisher’s blog, ITI Books Blog? Well, [...]
A couple days ago, The New York Times had an opinion piece, Wikipedia’s Sexism Towards Female Novelists. Long story short: “editors have begun the process of moving women, one by one, alphabetically, from the “American Novelists” category to the “American Women Novelists” subcategory.” Also take a look at The Atlantic Wire’s take: Wikipedia’s Boys Club [...]
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