After a long hiatus, we’re finally featuring a new “Confessions of a YA Junkie.” This edition highlights the young and very talented blogger Rachel Kinnard of As Told by Rachel. We’ve corresponded with Rachel on Twitter, and we have a lot of the same interests in contemporary novels, so when we decided to kick-start this…
Confessions of a YA Junkie: Ingrid from We Heart YA
It has been a while since we’ve featured a fellow YA lover, so we’re taking today to highlight a writer from one of our favorite YA book blogs, We Heart YA, on Confessions of a YA Junkie. I thought we had already featured Ingrid, but since we hadn’t, we’re excited for you to get to…
Confessions of a YA Junkie: Kristan from We Heart YA
This Thanksgiving week, we are so grateful to the connections we’ve made to other bloggers and their sites. We’re so thankful for bloggy pals like We Heart YA and are thrilled to once again feature one of their writers. We happen to agree with almost everything that Kristan says, especially in regards to her literary…
Confessions of YA Junkie: Sarah from We Heart YA
This week we welcome another bloggy pal to our Confessions of a YA Junkie series. We are so pleased to finally get the We Heart YA ladies to participate. We have a small but loyal readership here at TLR, and the We Heart YA contributors have been so good to us — reading and commenting pretty…
Confessions of a YA Junkie: Kristina
Our little “Casting Call” feature has allowed us to get to know five other YA lovers and chat with them about everything from what books they’re reading to the importance of watching “Friday Night Lights.” Kiki is, hands down, our most take-charge member. She’s smart and focused and can whip up a spreadsheet like it’s an…
Confessions of a YA Junkie: Brittany
What better way to relaunch the Confessions of a YA Junkie feature than with one of our dear Casting Call Fridays friends, Brittany from The Book Addict’s Guide. The youngest of our crew, Brittany is a smart, funny, talented reader and writer with impeccable taste in young adult lit, and in literary crushes too! We…
Confessions of a YA Junkie: Joanne Albano
One of the best things about Facebook is the fact that you can reconnect with old friends. I was so surprised one day when one of my old friends posted the winners of the YALSA awards on her Facebook page. This resulted in our chatting with each other and realizing that we both love YA…
Confessions of a YA Junkie: Candice from The Grown-Up YA
Our newest YA Junkie is a fellow blogger and teen lit aficionado, Candice. She’s one of the most thoughtful, thorough YA book bloggers we’ve ever come across, and she writes about deep cultural issues in addition to which fictional boys she finds swoon-worthy. Like most of our kindred spirits, she is also a Melina Marchetta…
Confessions of a YA Junkie: Alex
We met Alex on Twitter, where we knew she’d make a perfect YA Junkie. Now that’s we’ve read her submission, she’s clearly a kindred spirit, because anyone who loves Jonah Griggs is a friend of ours! Name, if you’re out about your addiction: Alejandra Marisol but Alex works too. Or Mary, that seems to be…
Confessions of a YA Junkie: Cara Blevins
This week our YA Junkie is our very own contributor, Cara. We discovered our mutual love of Young Adult literature via Twitter, where we found ourselves discussing our shared love of “Harry Potter,” Kristin Cashore, and pretty much any teen-lit book or author the other mentioned. She’s gorgeous and funny and generally awesome, so we…