All Blog Posts Tagged 'YA' (10)

Book Review: Cold Fire, by Kate Elliott

Yay for continuing a series which I started like five months ago! Cold Fire is the second instalment of The Spiritwalker Trilogy and it is excellent.

Remember when I was confused about why it took so long for me to read the first book? The same thing happened with this one--it's been almost three weeks since I started it and I only just finished it today. I went from being 12 books ahead on my reading challenge to only being 3 books ahead, just in the time it…

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Added by Adela Bezemer-Cleverley on November 14, 2012 at 8:57pm — No Comments

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

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Hi there,

So today I wanted to review a book that I just finished today: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar…

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Added by Luna A. on February 23, 2012 at 2:37pm — No Comments

Participatory Geometry

CBC Awards: http://www.bookweekonline.com/voting/7-12

In which John discusses the Butler Bulldogs astonishing second…

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Added by Ningmaster Tom on March 28, 2011 at 2:58pm — 2 Comments

Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award

Pittsburgh tickets: http://dft.ba/-bvm Alex Carpenter made the shirt I'm wearing: http://dft.ba/-bvk

In which John discusses, exactly five years after winning the Michael L. Printz Award for Looking for Alaska, the complex series of collaborations involved in creating a book.

By the way, I don't know if anyone actually reads the dooblydoo, but more than five years after "Looking for… Continue

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on January 21, 2011 at 3:49pm — No Comments

Are you in need of a good book recommendation?

Sometimes I write these blog posts assuming that everyone is on Twitter like me and follows lots of bookish people. I know that this isn't the case (but WHY isn't this the case, hmm?!), but I'm sure at least some of you were aware that yesterday was a special day for those interested in YA literature. It was the announcements of the American Library…

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Added by Clover on January 11, 2011 at 8:41am — 7 Comments

Second post! On books and movies.

First, movies, since there's really only one I want to discuss:

I saw Julie & Julia with my mom today. Yes, I'm 23 and still see movies with my mom. It's a side-effect of living at home while I'm back in the States for the summer. Anyway, I really enjoyed it, both for the cooking aspect (it spoke to the aspiring culinary goddess in me) but also for the way that they wove together the two story lines. Also, Meryl Streep as Julia Child = WIN! So hilarious, it was hard not to… Continue

Added by phloxyloxy on August 16, 2009 at 1:43am — No Comments

Some New Trend

A friend and I are writing a YA novel in blog form. It's about a group of north Florida kids who spend all their time hanging around the mall. It starts April 6th.

Our friend Seth stopped by for a while to capture how the writing process was going:

Some New Trend from Seth Newell on… Continue

Added by Kevin Wilder on March 17, 2009 at 6:05pm — 2 Comments

Fulfilling my Nerdfighter Destiny!

So I'm a linguistics/YA Lit Nerdfighter (YA Lit is Young Adult Literature...like John writes) and today, I was offered a big step in the YA Lit Nerdfighter ranks. I've been asked to present at a convention! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Its the OCTELA (Ohio Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts) Annual Conference and I get to do a presentation on YA Lit! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Ok, backstory

I was in this awesome class last year, Adolescent Literature, that was pretty much the coolest… Continue

Added by Cassie on January 26, 2009 at 5:46pm — No Comments

First blog post!

So, I've decided to start a reading blog on here, as a place to write miniature reviews or reflections of the latest books I've read. Movies might also factor in, but I guess it will depend.

So, first off we have two very different books - Momo, the German-language young adult fantasy book by Michael Ende, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris, which just came out last month and is a collection of short stories for a more mature audience (but not… Continue

Added by phloxyloxy on June 28, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Wacky, Madcap YA Conference Day

Okay, so it wasn't all that wacky, and not at all madcap. For the most part, I experienced the Colorado Teen Lit Conference in my own quiet, solitary way. As with most other social functions, I felt I didn't fit in. As a library assistant, I wasn't quite in the librarian/teacher crowd; but neither was I one of the scores of teens that attended (although a few others did mistake me for a high school student). But, unlike the few awkward parties I've been to, the conference provided lots of… Continue

Added by WhitneySkyWalker on April 5, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments