Top Ten Tuesday is a feature run by the lovely crew at The Broke and The Bookish Top Ten Most Anticipated Books for 2013 Yes, I know… I haven’t posted a review since last top ten tuesday. I fail. I have books I’ve read but just need to get around to typing up and formatting the reviews! Anyway,… Read more »

So, I’ve discovered that as I get older my Christmas list gets lamer and lamer. For example… this year I asked for things like gas station gift certificates and a toaster oven. Totally awesome, right? Still, there are tons of bookish things I would LOVE. I thought I’d share what’s on my bookish wish list… Read more »

Top Ten Tuesday is a feature run by the lovely crew at The Broke and The Bookish Top Ten Books/Authors I’m Thankful For So, I am straying from the topic and format of “Top Ten Tuesday” today. When I was thinking about books and authors I’m thankful for I realized I couldn’t stop there. There have… Read more »

Will Sparrow’s Road Author: Karen CushmanPublisher: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublication Date: Nov. 6, 2012Pages: 224Source: audiobook for review from Listening LibraryRead By: Katherine KellgrenAudiobook Publisher: Listening LibraryLength: 5 hoursAbout the Book: In his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road, he encounters a series of con artists—a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer—and learns that others are… Read more »

D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths Author: Ingri and Edgar Parin D’AulairePublisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.Publication Date: Sept. 19, 1962Pages: 192Source: audiobook for review from Listening LibraryRead By: Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Kathleen Turner, Matthew BroderickAudiobook Publisher: Listening LibraryLength: 4 hoursAbout the Book: Here are the immortals of Olympus—the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece—as freshly described as if they were… Read more »

SHERMAN ALEXIE!! I met him. Sherman. Alexie. Can you tell I’m still not over the fangirling? I basically just rambled and made a fool of myself but I don’t even care. I met Sherman Alexie. Really, that’s the whole point of this post. Just to set photographic evidence into the world in case I ever… Read more »

Waiting on Wednesday The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen Release Date: June 4, 2013 Published by: Viking Juvenile Set in the fictional beach town of Colby, where several of Dessen’s novels take place, it features 18-year-old Emmeline, who is spending her last summer before college working for her family’s vacation rental business and enjoying… Read more »

The Shadow Society Author: Marie RutkowskiPublisher: Farrar, Straus, and GirouxPublication Date: October 16, 2012Pages: 416Source: ARC requested from publisherAbout the Book: Darcy Jones doesn’t remember anything before the day she was abandoned as a child outside a Chicago firehouse. She has never really belonged anywhere—but she couldn’t have guessed that she comes from an alternate world where the Great Chicago Fire… Read more »

Today I have the pleasure of being part of the Dear Teen Me blog tour. This tour has over one hundred stops on it! Check out the full list here. This anthology started off as a website where authors shared letters to their teen selves. The anthology includes advice from over 70 authors (see full… Read more »

Today I have a super awesome giveaway for you to celebrate the release of Rebel Heart, book two in the Dust Lands trilogy. Here’s a bit more about the books: About Blood Red Road: Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been… Read more »