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Blog Tour: The Winner’s Kiss by Marie Rutkoski

January 31, 2016 by Sandie Leave a Comment

Blog Tour: The Winner’s Kiss by Marie Rutkoski

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… 

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Filed Under: Blog Tour, Features, Top Features Tagged With: authors we love, blog tour, kisses, marie rutkoski, melina marchetta, YA Romance

Monday Quotes: Heroines Who Rock

November 4, 2013 by Sandie 5 Comments

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… 

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Filed Under: Features, Quotes, Top Features Tagged With: heroines who rock, laini taylor, melina marchetta, Quotes, rick yancey, Sarah J. Maas, veronica roth

Monday Quotes: Male Protagonists in YA

October 28, 2013 by Sandie 6 Comments

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… 

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Filed Under: Features, Quotes, Top Features Tagged With: gayle forman, john green, lish mcbride, melina marchetta, Quotes, Rainbow Rowell, tim tharp

Quotes from Our Favorite Parents in YA

October 14, 2013 by Diana 4 Comments

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… 

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Filed Under: Favorites, Quotes, Top Features Tagged With: gayle forman, harry potter, john green, melina marchetta, Quotes, Rainbow Rowell

Twenty Reasons I Love Young Adult Literature

September 18, 2013 by Sandie 5 Comments

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… 

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Filed Under: Commentary, Features, Top Features Tagged With: authors we love, books, gayle forman, john green, melina marchetta, Rainbow Rowell, stephanie perkins

Confessions of a YA Junkie: Ingrid from We Heart YA

March 11, 2013 by Sandie 2 Comments

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… 

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Filed Under: Confessions of a YA Junkie, Features, Top Features Tagged With: confessions of a ya junkie, john green, laini taylor, melina marchetta

Twelve Favorite Swoon-Worthy Literary Crushes of 2012

December 28, 2012 by Sandie 7 Comments

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… 

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Filed Under: Best Of 2012, Literary Crush, Top Features Tagged With: authors, authors we love, best of 2012, books we adore, cassandra clare, john green, laini taylor, melina marchetta

Waiting on Wednesday: Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta

October 10, 2012 by Sandie 4 Comments

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… 

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Editor’s Pick: “Froi of the Exiles” by Melina Marchetta

April 18, 2012 by Sandie 1 Comment

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… 

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Confessions of a YA Junkie: Candice from The Grown-Up YA

March 9, 2012 by Sandie 4 Comments

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… 

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