We're an Open Book
Nori from Read Write Love 28 seems to always be coming up with awesome ideas and this fall she created the Book Blogger Creativity Project as a way for new and more experienced bloggers to connect and also inspire some creativity. I was lucky enough to be on Team Chocolate and we decided to play 20 questions !
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Books and Sensibility turned 4 this month ! How did this happen ? This has been a marathon year for us. I started a romance site, we took on BEA 2015 and were profiled on a local news website.
Jess and I started the blog in Fall 2011 when Jess wanted to write tongue and cheek recaps of The Mortal Instruments Series. We never got around to it because once we discovered the awesome YA blogging community we made a natural transition to book blogging. I was looking at the blog on the Wayback Machine and noticed that we’ve gone through quite a few looks along the way….
- Release Date: April 6, 2013
- Genre: Contemporary
- Audiobook Hours: 13 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
From the opening lines–which describe a serial killer’s thoughts as he disembowels his recent victim –this book hit my squick button. Hard. I can do gritty, but Game had more body mutilation and necrophilia than I like in my….everything. I was prepared to return this audiobook to the library but I was driving so I kept listening. I’m glad I did because once I got past the prologue, I was dipped right back into a story that was like watching my favorite procedural crime shows. From its twisty mystery, acerbic humor and constant supply of WTF-ery….
Put away your white pants cause fall is here! Along with pumpkin spice flavored everything –we are looking forward to these YA releases this fall.
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- Release Date: October 2, 2012
- Pages: 336
- Genre: Fantasy
- Publisher: Tor Books
Well, it’s time for to me fill my “Reading Outside of My Usual Genre” quota for the year.
I came across this book on NPR books where Amal El-Mohtar discussed how awesome the diverse covers for this book were and how Max Gladstone became one of his favorite authors. I had a Fantasy space in my Summer Book Bingo, so when I saw this was available on Scribd I started reading.
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- Release Date: September 1, 2015
- Genre: Contemporary
- Pages: 352
- Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
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