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Review: Wise Young Fool
Wise Young Fool by Sean Beaudoin. Little, Brown. 2013. Reviewed from ARC from publisher. The Plot: Ritchie Sudden is locked up for ninety days. He’s about to tell you why he got here. Well, eventually. Ritchie is about to tell you about his senior year. And how he and his best friend, Elliot Hella, started a [...]
What’s Selling
And now, a look at The New York Times Best Sellers for Young Adult and Children’s Series. Over in Young Adult, the highest number you’ll see is 35, because that is how long there has been a separate list for Young Adult. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green continues to be real powerhouse [...]
Flashback July 2006
A flashback to what I was reading in July 2006. The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer. From my review: “Enola Holmes’ mother has disappeared. The fourteen year old calls on her two older brothers, Mycroft and Sherlock, to assist; but they seem more interested in Enola being turned into a proper young [...]
Review: The Lucy Variations
The Lucy Variations by Sara Zarr. Little, Brown. 2013. Reviewed from ARC from publisher. The Plot: Eight months ago, Lucy Beck-Moreau stopped playing the piano. Teens do that all the time, right? Except Lucy Beck-Moreau, 16, isn’t your typical teen. She was a concert pianist, who was in Prague for a major event when she [...]
It’s Like Santa…
You may remember my post, It’s That Time Of Month, about books and periods. If so, you can understand my delight in the commercial, The Camp Gyno, from Hello Flo. I found out about it through Jezebel’s post, Tiny Tampon Queen Stars in Best Menstrual Marketing Ever. In a nutshell, Hello Flo is a new [...]
Review: Uses for Boys
Uses for Boys by Erica Lorraine Scheidt. St. Martin’s Griffin. 2013. The Plot: Slut. That’s the word thrown at Anna. Cutting as a knife. Creating a barrier between herself and the world. Except for the boys. Desmond, Joey, Todd, and the others. Yes, they take something, but they also give her something she needs. Warmth; [...]
Spoil This
Spoilers are a funny thing. Well, maybe not spoilers so much as how people react to them and what they mean. In a nutshell, a “spoiler” is something about the plot of a book, movie, or TV show. The term implies, in a way, that this somehow “spoils” the reader/viewer experience. But does it? I [...]
Plagiarism, Indie Authors, Libraries
Plagiarism stinks. No two ways about it. It happens. The question is, what to do when you see it? That was the issue presented to readers of some indie authors recently; they saw that one author had plagiarized others, and saw that the author had been mentioned on a blog post. So, what to do? [...]
Guest Post by Beth Bauman
One of the things I really like New Adult is the conversations it inspires. While I’ve joked about how “sexytimes” figures into whether a book is Young Adult or New Adult, I’m dead serious about young adult books and female sexuality. Want to see me rant? Just drop the s-word when talking about teenage girls. [...]
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