Welcome to the second week of Pile of Shame, the fun meme where bloggers and readers come together to share what’s in their to be read pile. This meme was started by Caitlin of whatchYAreading and was greatly inspired by Kristi’s, of The Story Siren, In My Mailbox meme. Which I think was inspired by…

For some reason I started this book with the expectation that I wasn’t going to like it. Or that it was going to be inferior somehow. I’m not sure where this idea came from and it begs the question…why did I buy the book if I was so sure I wasn’t going to like it?…

Book Birthdays returns! Our first one of the new year…a day late… But whatever! I’m so excited for this month! There are so many fantastic looking books coming out! February 1 Light Beneath Ferns by Anne Spollen I have this strange sense that my silence is preparing me for something I can’t name . ….

Christine: When I first picked up Tyger, Tyger, I thought it would be a children’s book because of the cover and the summary’s mention of goblins. Goblins seem more like a children’s plot, don’t they? Maybe I’m just too used to seeing faeries in every other book. Caitlin: To be fair, what this author calls…

As you might be able to tell from the Featured Authors section, I worship the ground Melina Marchetta walks on. She can do no wrong in my eyes. So, when a friend was going to Australia for Christmas I asked politely (read: DEMANDED) she bring me back a copy of the Piper’s Son. And then…

So, every Sunday, I love reading/watching  the dozens of IMM posts across the YA blogosphere. I’m not sure why, but I love seeing what people got in the mail and finding new books to look out for hearing people talk about the books they are excited to read. But I have never participated. Why? Because…

Angel books and dystopian novels seem to be my current weak spot. Although, based on the number of these being published right now, I don’t think I’m the only one with this weak spot. Wither was a dystopian. But it didn’t have to be. It could have been written as a fantasy, or as a…

This was so….I don’t even know if there is a word for it. Parts of it were beautiful, parts of it were ugly, and parts of it were uncomfortable. I’m not even sure I would classify it as YA. I got it from the YA section, and it is about two teenagers, but the style…

The buzz for this book was astronomical. It was all over twitter and facebook and the vast majority of book blogs. Or at least the ones I visit. There was all this potential swag to be won, a super cool contest on the author’s blog just before Christmas and secret project to have book blogs…

You’re probably going to be seeing a lot of these posts today. It’s sort of like a launch party, but online and with no snacks. Unless you’re like me and you’re eating some left over chocolate from Christmas. Yum. But we didn’t come here to talk about chocolate. Nope. We came here to talk about…