Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

A while back my friend Kate recommended THE GOOD THIEF by Hannah Tinti, but I never got around to reading it before yesterday.


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Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.


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Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.


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Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

As Rachel and I were going through our morning routine today, we were listening with half an ear to The Today Show blathering on about South Carolinan Representative Joe Wilson calling President Obama a liar during his healthcare reform speech. I then recalled watching this incredible video by ThoughtBubble ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

A snippet bit of conversation here at Casa JJ:

RUSS: Do you have SHIVER by Maggie Stiefvater?
JJ: YES! OMG, here it is, it’s so amazing.
RUSS: Yeah, I saw it in a bookstore the other day and thought about picking it up, but then I thought I’d better ask JJ if she has it first.
JJ: If it’s YA, it’s ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

I need a Boswell who skydives, mostly because I keep forgetting to log my jumps after I do them and then have to do some detective work to find out which dates I was at the DZ. (Thankfully, this is what Twitter seems to be good for.)

I have a gazillion ideas for blog posts, but I never seem to have the ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

Despite the fact that I’ve lived in New York for going on 5 years now and despite the fact that I am one of the world’s biggest fans of young adult and children’s literature, I had never stepped foot inside Books of Wonder before Sunday. (Even sadder? I used to live around the corner on 16th and 6th Ave ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

Sometimes I feel as though I have two distinct blogging selves: the nerdy, YA-bookish half and the laid-back, adrenaline-junkie skydiving half.

I’ve given my skydiving self some good blog time, so I figure I’ll let the YA-bookish self come out to play. I have read a lot of new books in the past few weeks ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

My dearest, most darling Sofa is travelling in Europe for three weeks, seeing her family in Belgium and enjoying the sights before buckling down to attend law school. This means I am apartment sitting, which means I am living in Manhattan part-time to make sure her abode doesn’t…I don’t know, burn down or ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

I don’t know, what’s it like being a human?

Alas, since the weather was 10 kinds of hell on Sunday (with tornado warnings!), Bear and I were unable to jump. Again. However, I did relish the time off to rest my shoulder, but more than that, it was unexpectedly nice to hang out with my Teddy Bear and not do ( Read more... )