Ever since Harry Potter became a worldwide phenomenon and people (myself included) went to see Twilight in theaters eleven times, Hollywood has been paying attention to popular young adult series and snatching up film rights to YA properties. But unfortunately, when they don’t reach The Hunger Games level of success some really smart people online proclaim THE DEATH… Continue reading 9 Young Adult Books that Should Be Made into Movies, or YA Movie Adaptations in a Perfect World*
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Book Review: What I Thought Was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick
Contemporary young adult romance is very hit or miss for me, but despite a few quibbles, I mostly enjoyed Huntley Fitzpatrick’s debut My Life Next Door and often recommend it to library patrons. For this reason, I had high expectations of her sophomore novel, What I Thought Was True, and they were mostly met. What… Continue reading Book Review: What I Thought Was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick
Top Ten Books on my Spring 2014 TBR List
Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogging prompt hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I don’t participate every week, but I join in when I find the prompt interesting. This week’s prompt is your most anticipated reads of Spring 2014. I interpreted that as new releases/ARCs I’m excited to read and plan to finish before… Continue reading Top Ten Books on my Spring 2014 TBR List
Book Review: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
When I pitch this book, I often say that it’s zombies and angels and a murder mystery and a maybe extinct (or maybe not extinct) woodpecker. And it is all of those things, and so much more. Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley (narrated by Josh Hurley and Fred Berman) Published: Published May 3rd 2011 by… Continue reading Book Review: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Book Review: Half Bad by Sally Green
When this book was pitched as a “dark” Harry Potter and was generating so much buzz, I was skeptical. But with its breakneck pacing and unique world-building, it totally won me over.
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