4 Nuts After resisting reading these books for over a decade I have finally caved and taken the plunge. My mom has been a Mercedes Lackey fan for something like 25 or 30 years and she’s been trying to get me to read them ever since I started devouring books. So why didn’t I? Mostly […]
Oh dear publishing, what have you done? Penguin released a statement recently that they will be publishing a “YA edition” of Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code. What makes it YA? It’s going to be abridged and presumably “rewritten” for YA. So dumbed down and shortened is what I’m hearing, and I don’t like it. Mine […]
This is not a book that I would ever have chosen for myself. I picked it up at a library sale after meeting the author at last year’s Rochester Teen Book Fest. It was an interesting premise, and I had to ask myself: is it really possible to write a convincing and intriguing book entirely in […]
You may have noticed a few things… First, Laura is posting! Yay! So now there are officially three of us blogging here. Next, brand new graphics. One of Laura and my friends from college was kind enough to create both a new logo and header for the blog! Old logo New logo […]
I got this book from TBF Live 2016, where some strange combination of fate and alchemy landed it on the arc table just in time for my winning ticket to snap it up. Erin was jealous. (She can borrow it.) First, let me just say, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Okay. Now that’s out of the way. There will […]
We arrived at TBF SUPES early, “supes” here meaning “like an hour before the authors started to arrive.” Oops. The staff made the executive decision to give us our bags early with only a little side-eye, and we sat down to wait for the shop to open. *fifteen minutes later* The curtain was drawn back […]
Day Two in our journey was actually yesterday, but we were exhausted and spacey, so we’re posting now. After finishing up some housekeeping tasks, we got on the road, despite the handicap of our gps refusing to recognize New York as a destination. The first part of the trip was mostly uneventful, apart from several […]
We are gearing up for the Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival! Step One was me driving to pick up Erin so that we could get to our jump-off point (that being Erin’s childhood home, since it’s closer than either of our current homes.) We packed our bags and got on the road, only to find […]
Hey, all! This is Laura, and I’m finally making a post! My life has been a little crazy, but it seems to be settling down, so hopefully this will start to happen more often (more often than never should be easy.) Anyway. You may be familiar with the Russian novel, Anna Karenina. It’s old, acclaimed, and pretty […]
Sadly, I did not make it to BEA this year. But all is not lost because I’ll be at The Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival for my third year in a row. Book festivals and conventions have a lot in common and one of those things are the tips I would give people who are […]