Spoiler warning for the end of Carry On. I can't help it. I love this book. I had a shit case of insomnia earlier this week and wrote this while I was trying to fall asleep. All errors can be blamed on exhaustion ( Read more... )

Best Book of 2014
I read quite a few good ones. I think the best was More Than This by Patrick Ness. I sort of thought I was so over dystopias, but I read this and it was fucking amazing.

Worst Book of 2014
Darkfever by Karen MArie Moning. It's not like I expected great literature, but I was told it was similar to the Sookie Stackhouse books. But ( Read more... )

Stolen from aigooism

See my full list at my blog here.

Best Book of 2013
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. It's one of the best books I've read in a long time.

Worst Book of 2013
I have a tendency to not finish books that I don't like. So I'll go with The Secrets of Droon, which was a book I read aloud to my seven year old. It wanted very badly to be like ( Read more... )

My list of books read in 2010.   An asterisk* means I reviewed it on my blog.  Bold means I love it enough to recommend it.  Not a terrible book count for a gal who works and has a kid.  Of course, the majority of the books are written for the under-thirteen crowd, which definitely keeps that word count up.

Clearly, my favorite discovery this year ( Read more... )

As I mentioned before, I'm running a Banned Books Week challenge over at my other blog.  I had some interest from a reader named Tracy, who doesn't have a blog of her own.  I agreed to lend her my LJ space so she could write a post on My Brother, Sam is Dead.  So...here's Tracy!  I hope this formats OK.

( Tracy's take on My Brothe Sam is Dead )

So over on my other blog, I'm running a Banned Books Week challenge.  Here's the link with the info.  Banned Books Week runs from September 25 through October 1.  If you're interested, let me know and I'll give you more deets.  I've had a handful of people from LJ already asking to post, so I figured I'd let everyone on the old f-list know.

Friday ( Read more... )

I'm so fucking excited, you all!  A couple months ago I was interviewed (for my other blog) by a writer for Entertainment Weekly online about Y.A. and nostalgia blogs.  Then I kind of forgot about it....

Then today I got an email that the article has been posted.   Sa-weet!  Check me out in all my Y.A. dorkiness here!

Also, my son is napping!  I ( Read more... )

G knocked down an entire shelf of audiobooks at the library today.  Way to go kid!  I know people were rolling their eyes and thinking Can't people just control their kids?  The answer, quite clearly, is no.

On the plus side, when I was cleaning up the mess, I managed to find a mis-shelved copy of Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a ( Read more... )

Here it is: my list of books read in '09. Anything with an *asterisk* means it was reviewed on my YA blog.  Also, I didn't include books that I read in under 2 hours (so there are most of the BSC I re-read this year). But screw that: next year I'm including them so that I can get my book count higher.  Oh shit, and I forgot to add audiobooks too.  ( Read more... )

I can't believe that the snow we started getting on Friday allowed me to get a freebie day off work on Monday.  But twenty three inches will do that, I suppose.  Then of course, today is Tuesday, which is my day off anyway ( Read more... )