Last week my Book Riot YA Quarterly Boxcame in the mail ! This is a quarterly bookish subscription box from Bookriot.com. Each box comes with two YA books and some book-related items. Let’s open up and see what’s inside.
Spoilers Ahoy !…
Archives for 2015
Audiobook Review : Reboot by Amy Tintera
- Release Date: May 7th, 2013
- Pages: 365
- Genre: Dystopian/Thriller
- Publisher: HarperTeen
I’ve been in a bit of a fictional hangover. Which is to say I binged watched Nickelodeon’s The Legend of Korra series and was searching for a book to fill this void. I wanted adventure, world-building and action girls so I immediately started browsing YA dystopians. I settled on Reboot after getting a rec from a regular reader….
So You Want To Review A Galley: The Basics For Beginners PT 1
At Books and Sensibility, we like to do things we probably aren’t qualified for. Like judging book coversor attending the largest publishing event in North America after blogging for all of 9 months. Now we want to talk about galley or Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) requests. Getting advanced copies isn’t everything in blogging, but it can be fun to be apart of the promotion for a book you’re excited about!
We want to share our tips on how we request ARCs. We don’t have many chances to network with publisher connections, so our ARC requests are basically like cold calls, which if you are a new book blogger you will be doing.
Check out the second part here.
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Now and Forever by Susane Colasanti
- Release Date: May 20, 2014
- Pages: 273
- Genre: Contemporary YA
- Publisher: Viking Juvenile (Penguin)
So, I’m starting to realize I may have a new book kryptoniteand it’s the what I like to call “I’m with the band” stories. These are the books were either a friend, parent, or the love interest is a rock star. I haven’t read many of them, but if I see one it instantly goes on to my TBR pile. I’m not sure why I’m so interested in this. Maybe its because my guilty pleasure movie is the Disney Channel Original Movie Starstruck or that Sarah Dessen’s This Lullaby was my favorite book as a teen. Either way, pair this knowledge with the fact that I’ve been meaning to read Susane Colasanti for years and Now and Forever was the perfect choice….
NOVA TEEN BOOK FESTIVAL 2015
Arrival
After attending the inaugural event last year I was excited to head back to my hometown of Northern Virginia for the NoVa Teen Book Festival !
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We Heart Diverse Book Covers !
We love diverse books and we love pretty covers so it makes us extra happy when there is diversity loud and clear on the covers in the YA section. Here is a collection of some of our favorite covers that clearly show LGBT or characters of color right on the cover. Tell us which ones are your fave or ones you love that we don’t have.
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