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November 7, 2016 by Karyn Silverman
Today, we interrupt our usual 3 review posts per week schedule to do our first list look. Because yes, it’s November, and yes, we’re in the rapid dash to the end of the year, and yes, the Best of lists have begun with PW’s, which landed last week.
September 17, 2016 by Karyn Silverman
Traditionally, we’ve launched the season with our massive (like, 90 titles long) reading list, but when we open with the big list, we always end up regretting approximately one-third of the titles. So this year, we’re going to share a shorter, not even slightly exhaustive list. Here are our top 25 titles, included either because […]
November 3, 2015 by Karyn Silverman
Probably the exclamation point was unnecessary, since (A) PW always kicks off the pack and (B) it’s November when the season always launches. BUT! It’s still exciting. And full of surprises! And books I haven’t read, which is always a concern. Why are there so many books? Why must we all have to pick and […]
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September 9, 2015 by Karyn Silverman
Labor Day has come and gone. School begins today for NYC. And the awards are only 4 months away. In other words, we’re back in action! If you’re stumbling upon us for the first time, remember: we know nothing (Jon Snow). But we’re going to have a blast speculating the &*#$ out of the 2016 […]
September 8, 2014 by Karyn Silverman
We’ve got a list. We’ve checked it twice. (I want to make a naughty or nice joke, but really, naughty books just don’t make it on Printz contender speculation lists.) We’ve considered buzz, that strange ephemeral thing that happens on Goodreads and Twitter, we’ve looked at stars (shoutouts, ever and always, to Jen and her […]
January 23, 2013 by Someday
Hopefully you’ve already voted for the Pyrite Printz* (if you haven’t, do so!), but maybe you had some Printz picks that didn’t make that shortlist? Well, so do we. So we thought we’d fill these final hours before the Pyrite polling closes by talking about our top 5s. And as we talked through our lists, […]
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