Best/Most Memorable Reads in 2013

2013 was meant to be my year of more balance. More classics, more backlist, more variety. That's why I reduced my goal to 75 instead of 100. I ended up at 72 (see my list of books read in 2013) including a couple of eNovellas...

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2013 in Review: Music

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2013 in Review: Movies and TV

Even though I don't usually blog about movies or tv, I do like my year end list summaries.2013 Movies I saw this year (top 5 marked with an *)Warm BodiesThe Place Beyond the PinesOblivionSide Effects (plane)Beautiful Creatures (plane)Star Trek: Into DarknessThe Host (plane)*Pacific RimWorld War Z*Catching Fire*Inside Llewyn DavisWolverine 2 (DVD)*Captain...

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Series Review: Letters to Nowhere by Julie Cross

The Letters to Nowhere series revolves around Karen, an elite gymnast whose parents have just died. The first installment is novel length while the following installments are shorter and take an episodic approach. While I think this an interesting...

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Reviews on a Theme: The Multiverse

This year on the YA scene there was a mini-boom of multiverse books. These came in two main types: 1) multiverse novels in which characters travel to actual physical universes other than ours a la the the TV show SLIDERS and 2) multiverse novels...

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Bookanista Review: Control by Lydia Kang

When Zel's father is killed and her sister is taken, Zel ends up in a safe house for mutant teens that officially shouldn't exist. While she plots ways to rescue her sister, Zel finds herself falling for the resident mysterious loner dude,...

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Reviews on a Theme: Time Travel (YA)

Time travel is always one of my favorite topics in books and here are a few I read this year. I can recommend all of the following for fellow time travel fans.AFTER EDEN by Helen DouglasWhen Eden meets mysterious new boy Ryan she has no idea...

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Reviews on a Theme: Sex in YA

Sex in YA is usually of the fade to black variety. But I read three contemporary books this year that get quite a bit more graphic than that. For further reading on the topic of sex in YA, check out this excellent post at Stacked.THE...

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Book Review: Parched by Melanie Crowder

This haunting little middle grade novel is set in an apocalyptic near future North America where water is so scarce that gangs have taken over the cities. Musa is kidnapped from his home and forced to look for water. Meanwhile, out in the middle...

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Book Review: Champion by Marie Lu

All this week I'll be posting reviews on some of the books I read this year. I'm starting out with the third and final book in Marie Lu's LEGEND series: CHAMPION. PRODIGY (see my review) ended on a massive cliffhanger and I was seriously biting...

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Fourth Annual Holiday #READATHON

It's been awhile since I've participated in a readathon, and I have a ton of reading to do if I'm going to complete my challenge of reading 65 books this year (downgraded from the original goal of 75 and the 100 I read last year).  And I found a superfun one!This weekend Liza of WhoRuYou blog is hosting the 4th annual holiday readathon and there...

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Man Made Boy by Jon Skovron Blog Tour Guest Post

Welcome to the MAN MADE BOY blog tour! I'm in the middle of reading this, and so far, it's lots of monsterly fun.What's it about?The son of Frankenstein’s Monster and his Bride, 16-year-old Boy has lived his whole life in a secret enclave of...

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Must Reads for 2014!

Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is books released in 2014 that we're excited to read. My list could go on forever since I'm an addict and want all the things (link leads to pinterest board of books I covet), but I am limiting it to 10 +...

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