Impressive Delinquence

by Beth on January 16, 2012 in Fantasy, Friendship/Social, Young Adult

Hello blogosphere/twitterverse/whomever is reading this from wherever you are reading it from! I have just finished Okay For Now by Gary D. Schmidt. And you need to read it. Seriously. Now. You need to read it now. Trust me on this. In other news I am officially a delinquent blogger. Okay, I’ve been a delinquent [...]

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My Year In Books

by Beth on November 25, 2011 in Miscellaneous, Young Adult

Something compels me to acknowledge that I have been the world’s most delinquent blogger this year. I confess that I have written two posts this year and both were disappointingly short and content-free. It has, however, been a bit of an interesting year. One that, truthfully, might have been less stressful if I had just [...]

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What to Post Next?

by Beth on June 4, 2011 in Miscellaneous

The question of which book I’m going to write about in my  next post shouldn’t, in theory, be difficult. It’s not as though I am lacking in good books to share with you and it certainly isn’t that I’m not reading at the moment. Quite the opposite. I’ve read so many good books that I [...]

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Short, Sweet, and to the Point

by Beth on May 29, 2011 in Uncategorized

I am back.

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Breathless

by Beth on December 29, 2010 in Dystopia

After I put down Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver, I walked directly to my computer and wrote a post about it. I honestly couldn’t wait any longer than that to tell someone else about the book.  Having just finished her second book, Delirium, (due out February 1st) I find myself sitting at my computer [...]

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A Tale of Two Dystopias – Part 2

by Beth on August 14, 2010 in Dystopia, Young Adult

I spent this morning running errands with my husband… one of which was running to Barnes & Noble to view the selection of plumbing books. We have already scoured the shelves of at least one Borders to see what selection is out there (read: very little) and my husband wanted to see what could be [...]

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A Tale of Two Dystopias – Part 1

by Beth on August 9, 2010 in Dystopia, Young Adult

I’ll start by explaining that this is the first of 4 posts on dystopia in young adult literature. Although I can’t say that I have read all of the dystopian novels out there, let alone all of the YA dystopian novels, I think I have read enough of them to have a fairly good understanding [...]

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The Kind of Book I Don’t Usually Read…

by Beth on August 8, 2010 in Friendship/Social, Young Adult

I just finished Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. Literally… I finished it and then walked back here and sat down to write. I picked up Before I Fall in a similar fashion to many of the YA books I’m reading right now… I got it for free at a conference. It’s not the sort [...]

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I Write Like – Part 2

by Beth on July 18, 2010 in Miscellaneous

So even though I was done posting I wasn’t quite done poking around about the I Write Like site. I am apparently not the only person who was highly skeptical. The folks at the Making Light blog did a much more thorough analysis and I thought it was worthwhile to pass it on. Learn about [...]

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I Write Like

by Beth on July 18, 2010 in Miscellaneous

On occasion I find myself putzing around facebook. Truthfully the time I spend on facebook is usually limited to seeing who is on and skimming through status updates. Usually I can tell when something is starting to trend throughout facebook because it’ll show up in more than one person’s status. Today I noticed this one: [...]

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