Welcome to our stop on THE WINNER’S KISS blog tour, which is all about literary kisses. Diana and I have written many times before about some of our favorite epic kisses, but now that Diana has retired from blogging, I had to to pick the kiss alone. I’ve had such fun reading everyone’s picks. So far I’ve learned that…
Monday Quotes: Heroines Who Rock
This past week Diana and I both read “Allegiant” and had daily conversations about the book, author Veronica Roth, and the characters she created. We’ve been Tris Prior fans since we first read “Divergent” in Spring, 2011. Tris is one of many amazing female protagonists in YA, and it got us thinking about all of…
Monday Quotes: Male Protagonists in YA
Since most young adult authors seem to be women, it’s only natural that the majority of main characters in YA is also female. Of course I’m not necessarily taking into consideration the many multiple-POV stories (even most of those start with the female character and in others), but in terms of my bookshelves, it’s definitely…
Quotes from Our Favorite Parents in YA
A couple of weeks ago we wrote a Top Ten Tuesday about our major book turn offs. One of the things we can’t stand is absentee or poorly developed parents. Luckily for us, some authors understand the importance of writing parents who are amazing, understanding and more than just flat characters who get in the…
Twenty Reasons I Love Young Adult Literature
It’s my birthday today. It’s not a momentous birthday, but I figured I’d dedicate today to some of the myriad reasons I love YA. It all started with the magic of “Harry Potter.” For Ron and Hermione and all couples who started off as fiery, bantery, teasing best pals. Because Diana and I bond over…
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…
Twelve Favorite Swoon-Worthy Literary Crushes of 2012
Diana and I have had a year full of literary crushes. We fully support reading books that don’t have romantic elements, but we have to be honest and say that our favorite Young Adult novels do incorporate romance, even if it’s not the *most* important theme in the book. Last night we took a break…
Waiting on Wednesday: Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta
I might make myself sick worrying about what could happen in this book, so instead I’ll just join in the WoW fun and share a novel I’m so impatient to read I actually paid more than twice as much as I could have in order to get it — from another continent. Waiting On: “Quintana of…
Editor’s Pick: “Froi of the Exiles” by Melina Marchetta
“Froi of the Exiles” by Melina Marchetta Publication date: March 13, 2012, Candlewick Press I was hesitant to read “Finnkin of the Rock,” but once I started it, I couldn’t put my computer, iPhone, iPad, Kindle down until I was done. And then I promptly re-read it all over again. So when Alex let me…
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…