Snow Day!

Or rather, a snowed-in weekend. Winter decided to give the midwest one last snowstorm, hooray. At least this wasn’t my weekend to work, and today the library is closed for the holiday anyway, so it really wasn’t too difficult to deal with–I sat on the sofa with Lush Puppy, drank cocoa, and read books: Zombies [...]

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Award Season

ALA has announced the 2011 Youth Media Awards. Congrats to all the medalists!

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Monsters of Men

This is the third and final book in the Chaos Walking series. You can read my thoughts about The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask and the Answer here. *SPOILER WARNING* Todd and Viola have finally been reunited in the ruins of New Prentisstown, but their momentary relief and happiness at finding each [...]

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Pegasus

For nearly a thousand years, humans and Pegasi have had an alliance. Because of this alliance, Princess Sylvi is bound to her Pegasus Ebon, her Excellent Friend, on her twelfth birthday. But things are different for Sylvi and Ebon than they are for everyone else: they do not need an official Speaker to communicate, but [...]

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Linkies!

Here’s some interesting bookish links: Kirkus 2010 Best Books for Children and Teens I have sadly read only a very few of these books. But should I ever run out of things to read, this will be a good place to start. A Screenwriter’s Hogwarts Decade I had no idea that the same person had [...]

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Top 100 YA Books

The two giant projects that have been eating my time and my brain are done, more or less, so I will ease back into blogging by doing a listy-meme post and gradually work my way back up to Actual Content. (That’s the plan, anyway; we’ll see how it goes.) Adele over at Persnickety Snark was [...]

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Flash Burnout

Blake is dating Shannon. It’s a fairly new relationship–they only started dating over the summer–and Blake is still figuring everything out. BF/GF is scary (and exciting!) new territory for both of them. Blake is also an aspiring comedian. Every time he makes someone laugh, he gives himself a point. Luckily Shannon seems to appreciate his [...]

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Queen’s Thief Series

These are incredible books, with amazingly intricate plots. Politics and religion! Action and adventure! These books have it all, and I love them. They take place in pseudo-medieval Greece. Yes, there are mildish spoilers ahead if you haven’t read all of the series yet, so consider yourself warned. The Thief Gen boasts that he can [...]

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Dull Boy

Avery is just your average boy. No super strength or ability to fly, no sir. Nope, he’s not a misfit or freak or anything. Just your average, dull boy. Except, of course, he’s not. And it’s gotten beyond his ability to control or hide, so people (like, his parents) are starting to notice and wonder. [...]

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Split Reading

Saturday evening I attended a reading at the Loft Literary Center. It was for Swati Avasthi’s debut YA novel Split. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but based on the selections she presented, it looks to be *really* good; it’s gotten great reviews everywhere. I’m looking forward to it. I originally heard [...]

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