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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Since starting the site, Diana and I have started compulsively reading not just teen-lit books but also YA blogs, and one of them that’s absolutely fabulous is YA Bibliophile, run by this week’s featured YA Junkie. I wandered over to YA Bibliophile after one of The Broke and Bookish’s weekly Top Ten Tuesdays and agreed with [...]
After two weeks of highlighting my amazing, pop-culture-savvy NextMovie editors (or as I prefer calling them, editrixes) Breanne Heldman and Brooke Tarnoff, this week’s YA Junkie is one of my favorite Young Adult book bloggers, Tammy aka Tee from YA Crush. Tee has impeccable taste in YA books (and literary crushes!), and I can never [...]
Name, if you’re out about your addiction: Brooke Tarnoff Age: 35 How long have you been reading YA: Since three or four years before I was anyone’s definition of YA, myself. Who are some of your “must-read-everything-they-write” authors: Suzanne Collins, Diana Wynne-Jones, Laurie Halse Anderson, Lois Duncan, Stephenie Meyer, Philip Pullman Favorite fictional boyfriend(s): God, [...]
Name, if you’re out about your addiction: Totally out. Breanne L. Heldman Age: 32 How long have you been reading YA: Other than my third grade dalliances with “The Babysitters Club,” about 8 years. Who are some of your “must-read-everything-they-write” authors: I really don’t like my answer for this – it paints an off-color picture [...]
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