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Archives for October 2013

Books and Sensibility Joins BlogHer’s National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPloMo)

October 30, 2013      Leave a Comment

While all the writers are getting ready forNaNoWriMo, we’ll be going a different route and participating in BlogHer’s National Blog Post MonthAKA NaBloPoMo.

We first participated in November of 2011 and hit a bit of a snag,  but this year we are going to be posting every single day of November ! Hopefully this will inspire us to come up with some creative posts and features.

“. . . Join the BlogHer.com NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) blog roll and commit to write (photograph, draw, craft poetry, whatever) every single day this month!

Every November, thousands of bloggers make this commitment to post daily. But it’s about much more than posting; it’s about community, connection and our shared craft. Those are all values worthy of a monthlong public celebration.

If you’ve never joined NaBloPoMo, this is the time to do so. It starts November 1 and runs until November 30. Just make the commitment to (1) blog daily for the month (nothing more to it than that!) and (2) to support your fellow NaBloPoMo-ers by reading a handful of the other blogs on the blogroll. Cheer them along, and they’ll cheer you on, too.

You can sign up for November’s NaBloPoMo until November 5. That’s the list we’re using to choose the weekly prizes, too: Every week, we’ll be handing out an iPad Mini and two passes to the 2014 BlogHer conference in San Jose, CA. First, take a look at the official contest rules here, then sign up and commit to blog daily!” – BlogHer

 

 

Book Review: Are We There Yet ? by David Levithan

October 29, 2013      Leave a Comment

Join Kat as she reads and reviews the works of David Levithan
from his debut novel to his National Book Award shortlisted novel, Two Boys Kissing. See more here !

“Do you wander why we wander ?”

– David Levithan, Are We There Yet ?

 

  • Release Date: July 12th 2005
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • Genre: Contemporary
  • Pages: 215

Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Elijah is completely mellow and his 23-year-old brother Danny is completely not, so it’s no wonder they can barely tolerate one another. So what better way to repair their broken relationship than to trick them into taking a trip to Italy together? 

 

 

For now I am skipping David Levithan’s sophomore novel, The Realm of Possibility, and jumping to his third novel Are We There Yet ? his second novel to be written in traditional prose.…

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The Sense List Vol. 29: October Faves !

October 28, 2013      3 Comments

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Goodbye, Rebel Blue by Shelley Coriell

October 24, 2013      6 Comments

  • Release Date: October 1, 2013
  • Publisher: Abrams
  • Pages: 320
  • Genre: Contemporary 

Rebecca “Rebel”  Blue is exactly what she sounds like; a rebel. Raised and home schooled by a free willing photographer, Rebel just doesn’t get most things; like wearing shoes or math. Which is why she battles daily with her aunt and cousin after her mother’s death. She’s accepted she doesn’t fit in and she’s fine with it.

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Re-Introducing Days of David Levithan

October 22, 2013      Leave a Comment

Join Kat as she reads and reviews the works of David Levithan 

from his debut novel to his National Book Award shortlisted novel, Two Boys Kissing

In summer 2012 Jess attempted to read every Sarah Dessen novel in publication order. This winter I’m attempting a similar feat with David Levithan. If you enjoy contemporary YA, Levithan’s mix of prose, eccentricity, humor and storytelling is something you have to experience
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Audiobook Review : Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

October 16, 2013      Leave a Comment

  • Release Date : August 16th 2007
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Audiobook Length : 8 hours 55 minutes

Synopsis : St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger…

Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy’s ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world’s fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever

Two years ago Rose Hathaway,  a half-human vampire, and her best friend Lissa Dragomir, a vampire princess, ran away from the vampire filled St. Vladimir’s Academy. We don’t know what they’ve been running from, but these girls have their reasons. Only now, they’ve been dragged back to St. Vladmir’s and the darkness has followed them….

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