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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Go Vote For Jace!

GO VOTE FOR JACE! The YA Sisterhood is having a great YA competition with some of our favorite characters and this one is Jace vs Jules. This competition is all kinds of wrong, and I mean that in a good way. Really, Jace against Jules?! They're both fabulous characters, it's hard picking one. Don't get me wrong Jace has my vote, but Jules is my favorite character from Amy Plum's Die For Me. Be sure to head over to The YA Sisterhood and VOTE for Jace now!!

Supernaturally Blog Tour: Guest Post by Kiersten White

I'm very excited to have Kiersten White on the blog today. She's here to share with us some of her favorite MG and YA books.

Middle Grade

Utterly charming storytelling, with a delightful narration. Like Lemony Snicket without the sometimes mean-spirited undercurrents.

The youngest skewed book on the list, but with so many gems you must read it when someone is in the room with you so you can say, “OH MY GOSH, listen to this part!”

The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
I loved this book when I was little; I didn’t understand it until I was an adult. Funny, thought-provoking, ridiculous, wonderful.

The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
I know, I know, if you’re like me right now you’re humming the cheese-tastic theme from the eighties’ movie. There is a reason Michael Ende asked them not to attach his name to the film. This book is a wonder, one of the few I periodically re-read.

Young Adult

Across the Universe, by Beth Revis
Incredibly well-crafted, breathless, claustrophobic sci-fi. I loved this book.

Anna and the French Kiss, by Stephanie Perkins
Nobody does giddy, laugh-out-loud, swoony romantic comedy like Perkins. And the companion novel, Lola and the Boy Next Door (September) is just as good.

If I Stay, by Gayle Forman
One of my all-the-time recommendations. This book blew me away. (The companion novel, Where She Went, is very different but just as emotionally impactful.) A book that drains you and then fills you back up.

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Another perma-recommendation. I can’t recommend this book highly enough. Very few books stay with me permanently, but this was one of them.

Chime, by Franny Billingsley
Lush and twisted, dark and delicious, a novel about guilt and sisters and self-destruction. And bog monsters. And witches. So good!

Misfit, by Jon Skovron (August)
Demons. High school. Dead mothers. First kisses. First…levitations? Skovron’s writing is always insightful, and this book’s complexity and attention to mythological detail sets it apart from the usual paranormal fare.

Imaginary Girls, by Nova Ren Suma
Deliciously odd and haunting, another book about sisters and the things we do to and for the people that we love. Vaguely disturbing, darkly magical.

The Curse Workers Series, by Holly Black
One of my absolute favorite new series. I don’t usually envy ideas because I already have too many of my own to write, but I can’t tell you how brilliant the world of magic noir Black has crafted is. I love everything about these books.

The Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor (October)
My favorite read this year. Taylor weaves fantasy and magic into the real world, and then weaves that world into another one entirely. Taylor is unsurpassed in her ability to write wonder into the most ordinary descriptions; this is a book to both devour and savor. And then read again.
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Thank you so much Kiersten for your book recommendations. I've already added a few to my list of must have reads.

Go here to follow the Supernaturally Blog Tour and enter to win a copy of Supernaturally here.

Live Author Chat with Egmont's Summer Original Paperback Authors

Tonight we're chatting with authors Aimee Ferris, Lynn Kiele Bonasia & Jan Blaznin. Thank you to Egmont, we'll also have giveaways *must be present to win*. You can find out more about the authors and their books here.



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Waiting On Wednesday: The Girl of Fire & Thorns

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, were bloggers select a book they can't wait to read that's not yet been released.


By Rae Carson
Published by Harper Teen
To Be Released on September 20th, 2011

Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness.

Elisa is the chosen one.

But she is also the younger of two princesses, the one who has never done anything remarkable. She can’t see how she ever will.

Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.

And he’s not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies seething with dark magic are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people’s savior. And he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake.

Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn’t die young.

Most of the chosen do.

I can not wait to get this book. I've heard so much exciting buzz surrounding it. What book are you looking forward to getting?

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