OMG GUYS, THE TRAILER FOR ZOMBIES VS. UNICORNS IS OUT, AND AMAZING!



You can vote for Team Zombie or Team Unicorn here.

CLOCKWORK ANGEL
Cassandra Clare
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010


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Forever Young Adult posted a Hunger Games drinking game today, which pretty much spells death to anyone who actually plays by the rules. I do hope they're not expecting anyone to actually play by the rules.

And in other YA news, I finally finished Life As We Knew It, and am seriously freaked out. Please do not let an asteroid hit the moon and knock ( Read more... )

MOCKINGJAY minus one week!

My big plans next weekend are to reread The Hunger Games and Catching Fire at the beach and possibly convince sninkle to partake in a Hunger Games themed drinking game. Drink every time Katniss is badass? Drink every time Peeta has you craving baked goods? Drink every time you want Rue on your team? Drink every time you have ( Read more... )

My life has shifted this week from reading about teenagers to working with them. Other than calling me old several times, they are generally delightful and amusing. For example:

EXT. Some bleachers, at the edge of a field. CAMPERS and COUNSELORS are watching Robots & Rockets campers launch rockets with the help of their counselors.

COUNSELOR ONE: ( Read more... )

...subtitled: 'of the long and rambly thought variety'...

( Cut, for massive book-ruining spoilers of both The Demon's Lexicon and The Demon's Covenant )

Woo, YA movies in Spain! I get excited about movies that aren't dubbed. Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging meets Bridget Jones, I think. I'm totally getting this book from the library.

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Everyone who reads or writes YA should read this blog post by Hannah Moskowitz about "the boy problem" in YA literature: why do teen boys not read YA?

Here's a little teaser:

--boys aren't skipping their way through high school, either.

So why do MG books remember this and not YA? Why are MG books looking at showing boys every aspect of themselves ( Read more... )

Yesterday I blogged a review of The Demon's Covenant, the second installment in Sarah Rees Brennan's Demon's Lexicon trilogy. You should not read the review if you haven't read the first book in the series, but you should read the books. They are fabulous.

Last week I asked an acquaintance of mine, who happens to be a connoisseur of YA, if she'd ( Read more... )

The Demon's Covenant
Sarah Rees Brennan
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010


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