I came back to our hotel last night with 21 books, and I thought, “How can today possibly be better?” (This is 20 books because I forgot to lay out “Tales from Outer Suburbia” by Shaun Tan which I’m WAY excited about).But today was even better. I went to some excellent panels with my supervising librarian, and then the Lone…
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TLA and Interview
I am in Houston at TLA and it is everything I dreamed and more. I cannot even talk about it without going into wild-eyed and arm-flailing raptures. It is like trick-or-treating for book nerds – I came back to the hotel with three bags of free books. Brand-new, haven’t even been released books. They are, understandably, covered in drool. In…
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First Quarter Down!
My goal this year was 120 books, which means I need to read 30 books a quarter. First quarter down, and I’ve read 51 books. Clearly, I need a fourth job. Mostly, I’m just spurred on by Kayla’s challenge that she could read one more book this year than I do. Au contraire! A Solitary Blue – Cynthia Voigt A…
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Book Trailers
Are you familiar with book trailers? I’ve seen them start popping up in the last year or so on the Internet and, like most things, some are really good and some are kind of terrible. If you haven’t seen any book trailers, they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect – a little video introducing the main storyline of a book,…
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The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
9 of 10: I loved The Truth About Forever. Extremely readable, likable characters, and more substance than you’d expect from a book that would generally be categorized as a young adult romance. February and March quite accidentally turned into the months of Sarah Dessen. I read Lock and Key at the end of January and when I reviewed it, practically…
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