Notes on Books & Life
I picked up a galley of Lise Haines’s Girl in the Arena at last year’s Book Expo America. Fresh from devouring The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, I was looking for something to fill the void until its sequel was released. When a rep at the Bloomsbury booth handed me Girl in the Arena and said, “It’s the …
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Okay, so I didn’t read Stephanie Meyers’s Twilight books. Pretty much nothing about them appeals to me. Not even a little bit. BUT. This version of Eclipse, done with action figures on a kitchen counter by Jen Lancaster over at Jennsylvania, is AWESOME. Especially the puns. And now I feel all caught up.
I quite enjoyed this video, shown to me by a coworker. It’s a trailer for a new book from Macmillan: It’s a Book by Lane Smith. Enjoy!
I just (like, 5 minutes ago) finished reading a new young adult novel from Deborah Wiles called Countdown. It’s set in the 1960s, which is not usually something that piques my interest, and it didn’t this time. What grabbed me, made me pick the book up and add it to my TBR pile, was its …
So I’ve been on an audiobook kick lately. They make cleaning, cooking, and driving more enjoyable, and I’d rather listen to them while knitting than watch TV. I’ve gone through a whole slew of them in the past month, but three stood out as my absolute, recommend-them-to-everyone favorites. First up is a YA novel written …
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