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Welcome, dearies! It has been a whole year since Cryptkeeper!Thea has taken over the blog, but she’s back now for… HALLOWEEN WEEK 2009! Last year, we celebrated Halloween by taking a day by day look at different monsters and…
This Saturday, and every Saturday for the duration of the TV season, we bring you On The Boob Tube with The Book Smugglers: in which we talk about all those water cooler moments of the past week’s episodes, raving…
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What She Said: Heir to Sevenwaters & The Name of the Wind
Today we bring you the latest installment in our new feature, “What She Said…” in which we both review books that the other has already read and reviewed. The idea arose because of the dilemma that if one of…
For the past few months, we have been including an “On our Radar” section in our weekly stash for books that have caught our eye; books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular…
This Saturday, and every Saturday for the duration of the TV season, we bring you On The Boob Tube with The Book Smugglers: In which we talk about all those water cooler moments of the past week’s episodes, raving…
For the past few months, we have been including an “On our Radar” section in our weekly stash for books that have caught our eye; books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular…
This Saturday, and every Saturday for the duration of the TV season, we bring you On The Boob Tube with The Book Smugglers: In which we talk about all those water cooler moments of the past week’s episodes, raving…
For the past few months, we have been including in our weekly stash an “On our Radar” section for books that have caught our eye and attention; books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from…
This Saturday, and every Saturday for the duration of the TV season, we bring you On The Boob Tube with The Book Smugglers: In which we talk about all those water cooler moments of the past week’s episodes, raving…
You may have noticed by now how much we love books and reading. What you probably don’t know is that we love TV shows about just as much. We are both huge couch potatoes and each of us follow…
Today we bring you a new feature, called “What She Said…” in which we both review books that the other has already read and reviewed. The idea arose because of the dilemma that if one of us reads and…
A couple of months ago read, or at least, try to read, Night’s Rose by Annaliese Evans and it ended up being the first ever book that neither of us were able to finish. The result was a conversational…
The end is here (boo) for our Young Adult Appreciation Month and we go out with a bang! Or rather with one of our … FLASH GIVEAWAY: You know the score, a Flash giveaway is a contest that runs…
A while back – last Christmas, to be exact – I got my buddy Kyle a book. Actually, let me backtrack. Kyle is a burgeoning reader; when I first met him, he’d just started to read the Twilight books…
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Joint Review: Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale & Nathan Hale
Title: Rapunzel’s Revenge Author: Shannon Hale & Dean Hale Illustrator: Nathan Hale Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling, Graphic Novel, Young Adult Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Publication Date: August 2008 Hardcover: 144 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone graphic novel.…
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Young Adult Appreciation Month: Alexander Gordon Smith on Inspiration and Influences (and a Giveaway)
Alexander Gordon Smith is the writer of the Inventors series for children and the YA/Fantasy Furnace series. I met Gordon in London at a Forbidden Planet’s event (the Guillermo del Toro signing) and prompted by his passionate talk about…
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Joint Review: Wake by Lisa McMann
Title: Wake Author: Lisa McMann Genre: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Simon Pulse (US) / Simon & Schuster (UK) Publication Date: December 2008 (US) / October 2009 (UK) Paperback: 224 pages Stand alone or series: Book 1 of the…
Title: Everlost Author: Neal Shusterman Genre: YA (Fantasy/ Paranormal) Publisher: Simon Pulse (US) / Simon & Schuster Children (UK) Publishing Date: Nov 6 2007/ Jul 6 2009 Paperback: 384 pages Stand alone or series: First in the Skinjacker trilogy…
Other Titles for the Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Fan to Try: I wanted to review many, many more books for YA Appreciation Month, but there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to do so. Instead, I decided to compile a…
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Double Review: The Giver & Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
When we were brainstorming our plans for the final week of our YA Appreciation month, we realized the need to do a second Apocalypse/Dystopia day. And, when looking over what titles we both wanted to read, we decided to…
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YA Appreciation Month: (Post-) Apocalypse/Dystopia Day 2
Two weeks ago, we had our first day of Bleak Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Book Goodness – and since we love this genre so much, we decided to have a reprisal. Today, we take a look at some old favorites and…
Title: Newes From the Dead Author: Mary Hooper Genre: Historical Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Bodley Head Children’s (Random House UK) / Roaring Book Press (Macmillan US) Publication Date: April 2008 (UK & US) Hardcover: 320 pages Stand alone or…
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Joint Review: A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson
Title: A Countess Below Stairs (UK Title: The Secret Countess) Author: Eva Ibbotson Genre: Historical, Romance, Young Adult Publisher: Speak (US) / Young Picador (UK) Publication Date: 1981 Paperback: 400 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel. Why…
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Young Adult Appreciation Month: Stash, News and Bonus Week Schedule
Greetings earthlings! Before you get the wrong idea and start throwing us into “prawn” slums, we have some breaking news before we give you the skinny on our final week of Young Adult Appreciation Month: District 9 totally, completely…