Today, I really started thinking of Tamora Pierce. She just won the Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Library Association. If there is anyone in this world that deserves that award, it is her. Her first novel, Alanna: The First Adventure, came out in the early 80s. She continues to publish novels, and they continue to dazzle her readers.
Category: Books
Book of the Week: The Looking Glass Wars
Hello everyone. I hope everyone is having a great and nerdy week. We’ve had some good news this week in that Doctor Who finally got a return date! (March 30th for those of you who missed yesterday’s post). Lots of really awesome things are coming soon. Wonder Con is the same weekend as the return of Doctor Who. Tickets went on sale this week so I’m pretty excited about all that.
Meanwhile, I’m keeping myself busy with my 200 books this year goal. Currently I’m at about 13 1/2 books but I hit a slow patch in reading as I picked up my pen (or my keyboard…) and started writing again. I was hit with some writing inspiration and I’ve been writing. Its all just one big fat sloppy mess right now but its fun to be writing while promoting the publishing of A Little Less than Famous.
However, troche I HAVE been reading a lot so I do have a Book of the Week for you this week, which means I’m getting a WHOLE lot better at my schedule, which is GOOD. That means I’m getting more responsible and that you can trust me now! Hopefully…
New Adult-Unnecessary Genre or Good Marketing Term?
So, with A Little Less than Famous published, I’ve been hearing more and more about this new term or genre that people have being using to describe my novel. This new genre, if you will, is called “new adult”.
Book of the Week-The Girl of Fire and Thorns
Welcome back to the Book of the Week, in its new day, Thursday! I changed the outline of my blog a little bit and moved the Book of the Week from Friday to Thursday. Okay, and I am totally aware that is neither Thursday nor Friday and I’m already doing seriously horrible at sticking to my blog outline. I’m trying to do better though and its been kind of a busy week.
But moving on. I am on a reading high right now, trying to make my goal of 200 books in a year and so far, I’ve read 11 books this year, which isn’t too bad considering its mid-January.
So it actually was kind of hard to pick a book for a book of the week.
GoodReads Challenge 2013
In the past few weeks, I’ve gotten strangely attached to the website, GoodReads.
People have been telling me for the longest time to get on this website and I never really understood the point of it. It never appealed to me, even though I’m the biggest reader of them all.
But, people continue to ask me all the time how many books I read in a week, a month, a year…and I honestly have no answer for that. I’ve never sat down and counted that. So starting November 1st, I started recording each book that I finished.
Book of the Week-Looking for Alaska
As a huge supporter of young adult literature, John Green is one of the authors that top my list. John Green is definitely an example of how young adult literature can be used as a viable source of literature and SHOULD be used in classrooms.
Moving on though, its been forever since I did a Book of the Week post because, sadly, I was so busy between Christmas and all the birthdays that I have going in December and I literally had no time to read anything. But now that I still have a month left of glorious winter vacation before I hit the books again in school, I can consume all the books that I received as Christmas gifts.
One of those books was Looking for Alaska, by John Green.