YA Book Club is hosted by Tracey Neithercott at Words on Paper. Thanks for bring us all together, Tracey! This month we’re discussing Insurgent by Veronica Roth. Insurgent is the second book in the Divergent trilogy. It’s difficult to discuss a sequel without giving away the secrets of the first book, but I’m going to...
Today I’m reviewing Reunited by Hilary Weisman Graham, as a part of an ARC tour with the Southern Book Bloggers. Reunited will be released on June 12th, 2012. The Summary: In middle school, Alice, Summer, and Tiernan were best friends and the world’s biggest fans of the rock band Level3. But everything changed when they...
Summer is breathing down my neck like a three-headed dog named Fluffy. Responsibilities keep piling up, and every time I cross one thing off the to-do list, three more items magically appear. And my kids only have 10 days of school left. Needless to say, I’ve fallen behind on my blogging. Having ALL the boys home ALL the time...
This week’s Road Trip Wednesday question is: What book brings back memories? Books and memories go hand-in-hand for me, but I’ll never forget when I discovered Anita Shreve. I had run out of books at home and didn’t have time to go to the book store, so I picked up the first cover that grabbed...
May 1st marked two amazing book birthdays. Veronica Roth’s follow-up Insurgent, and Kristin Cashore’s Bitterblue, the long-awaited sequel to Graceling. Reading these two books back-to-back illustrated how sequels can be very different but equally fantastic. I’ll be reviewing Insurgent for YA Book Club later this month, but I can’t help comparing and contrasting a little for my review of...
For this Road Trip Wednesday, the Highwayers asked: What’s your favorite use for a book besides reading it? We have so many books in our house that they inevitably end up as decorations. We have some scattered around, but most reside in my husband’s office. (We generally keep his books on the most visible shelves,...
Happy Leap Trip Wednesday! Every Wednesday YA Highway’s contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. This week’s topic: What was the best book you read in February? February has been a slow reading month for me. It’s so much easier to browse for books in a book store than...
This has been an exciting week. In the book-blogging world, I am so excited to have found the Southern Book Bloggers through the magic of twitter. This site connects book bloggers who live in the south, keeps track of regional book signings and events, and sends ARCs of fabulous YA books on tours from state...
Just a quick Sunday night post… I took a few days off from the web to spend a fun weekend with my family. (I can’t say technology, because of course I had my phone, my camera, and my nook.) The weather was beautiful, and we had a lovely time together. I’m glad we were all...
Welcome to the last day of the 2011 YA superlative blogfest, hosted by Katy Upperman, Jessica Love, Tracey Neithercott, and Alison Miller. This has been so much fun, and I’ve added way too many books to my to-be-read list for 2012. Today we chose Best in Show: Favorite Cover: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. This...
