It’s been forever since I checked in with YA Highway’s Road Trip Wednesday. This week the topic is simple and perfect for what’s been on my mind: What are you reading right now?I’m still reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. At about halfway through, that’s slow reading for me. I’ve been itching to talk about...

Happy Halloween! I hope you are all safe and dry out there. The nature of the blog-o-sphere means we don’t always know where our fellow readers and writers live, but I’m praying for everyone in the Northeast as they come through this nasty witch Sandy. In honor of Halloween today, YA Highway’s RTW asks: What is your favorite...

RTW: Best Book of September Today YA Highway asks, “What was the best book you read in September?” This gives me the perfect opportunity to review The Assassin’s Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke, which I read through a SBB ARC tour. The Assassin’s Curse debuts October 2, 2012.   The summary:   When teenage pirate...

 For Road Trip Wednesday, in honor of this month’s Bookmobile book, Marissa Meyer’s CINDER, name a fable or story you’d like to see a retelling of. If you’re feeling creative, come up with a premise of your own! Better late than never! I had this post almost ready to go last night, then ended up...

It’s time for Road Trip Wednesday! Boy, have I missed you guys! I hope now that summer is over I’ll keep a better blogging schedule. Today’s question is: What word processing program do you use to write your manuscript, and can you share one handy trick you’ve learned in that program that has helped you...

It’s Road Trip Wednesday again, and YA Highway asked, “What was the best book you read in June?” June has been so busy that I’ve fallen behind on my reading and blogging. But the best book I read this month was so good that I had to jump in and rave about it. My best book in...

YA Highway RTW: The Best Book in May May is always a huge month for new releases, and this year all the titles I’d been waiting for lived up to the hype. I read the 5 YA titles above and a few adult books as well. You can check out my reviews of Bitterblue, Insurgent, and Reunited for more info. I’d have to...

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...

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,...

For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, the topic is: PROM Oh, it’s so funny to think back to that time. My school had plenty of semi-formal dances for underclassmen. I’d gone to most of those, sometimes with a boy I was dating and sometimes with friends. During my junior year, I hadn’t really thought much...