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Books and Boys: We all have “types”

A few days ago, after yet another Judith/Ellen books conversation, I realized something: I totally have a book “type”. Just like how I know that the tall, über-jock looking guy at the bar will be the one I go for (it’s a weakness!) there are some books that, no matter how bad they might be [...]

Marina in a Green Dress by Alan Davidson

Marina in a Green Dress by Alan Davidson Published by: Straw Hat Books Format: Kindle edition Reviewed by: Judith Evidently it’s redemption week here on the blog though I never got the memo. Without fail, every book I’ve read with the express purpose of reviewing has featured redemption and salvation pretty heavily and you know [...]

From What I Remember by Stacy Kramer and Valerie Thomas

From What I Remember, by Stacy Kramer and Valerie Thomas Publisher: Hyperion, 2012 Format: Kindle My very last Olympic review!!! And I’m actually doing this while I watch the Closing Ceremony so if this makes even less sense than my normal review I’m sorry but it’s not easy to sing, type, and keep an eye out for [...]

The Rock Star’s Daughter by Caitlyn Duffy

Rock Star’s Daughter by Caitlyn Duffy Publisher: Lovestruck Literary, July 5, 2011 Format: Kindle You know that old cliché “you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you meet your prince” – well I think that fits in VERY nicely when discussing the wealth of free/cheap e-novels. I kiss a LOT of frogs (A LOT) in [...]

Destiny Binds by Tammy Blackwell

Destiny Binds (Timber Wolves #1) by Tammy Blackwell Publisher: Self-Published, 2011  Format: Kindle It’s a well-known truth here at I Love YA Fiction that I’m generally anti-trilogies but as with all things in life there are exceptions to every rule and the Timber Wolves series is definitely one of my exceptions. I actually owe Judith for this [...]

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

Why We Broke Up, by Daniel Handler Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (December 27, 2011) Format: Hardcover Edition Plot: Minerva “Min” Green is…different. When people first meet her, they all want to call her arty (which she despises) because she wears thrift store clothing, hangs out with a potentially gay best friend, loves avant garde [...]

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Looking for Alaska, by John Green Publisher: Speak (December 28, 2006) Format: Kindle Edition You know how everybody has one book, a perfect book that makes you alternate between crying and laughing, thinking and zoning out, a book that you can’t wait to read and simultaneously want to put down (mainly because it’s making you cry [...]

Carrie Pilby by Caren Lissner

Carrie Pilby, by Caren Lissner Publisher: Harlequin Teen; Original edition (July 1, 2010) Format: Kindle Edition Plot: Carrie Pilby isn’t your typical heroine.  She’s a disgruntled genius who graduated from Harvard at 19 and is living an aimless existence in Manhattan with no job, no friends, and no real desire to do anything. She doesn’t care about [...]

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