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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A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
- Release Date: November 14th, 2014
- Pages: 368
- Genre: Science Fiction
- Publisher: HarperTeen
Marguerite Caine’s parents are geniuses. Literally. They’ve invented the Firebird, a device that allows a person to travel into alternate universes. Just as they are about to go public their graduate assistant, Paul Markov steals the technology, kills Maugerite’s father and escapes into another dimension. Now, with the help of their other assistant, Theo, Marguerite is going after Paul to figure out what his plans are and avenge her father’s death.
I don’t typically read the trendy science fiction YA books, but this cover is so unique and I always liked Gray’s ‘I’m not like the other girls‘ blogpost and I needed to break my contemporary kick.
Jess is always telling me how time travel books can always be hard to understand and as I started this I imagined alternate universe traveling would be even more confusing. I hand waved most of the science stuff, but basically the book says that all around us multiple alternate universes exist where different choices have created different timelines. When you travel you are put into the consciousness of yourself in that dimensions and when you leave the version of yourself has no memory of you being there.
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If These Books Were Judged by Their Covers Vol.4
… Audiobook Review: Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
- Release Date: October 16th 2012
- Audiobook Hours: 7 hours 22 minutes
- Genre: Adult Fiction
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
I have this thing where I tend to read popular fiction waaaaay behind the curve. I read The Fault in Our Stars 3 years after I bought it, Gone Girl is still on my TBR and I bought 50 Shades two years ago and I will get past the first 50 pages at some point.
If you think back to late 2012 it was all about Silver Linings Playbook because the movie was super buzzy. So buzzy they have the actor’s names on the movie tie-in cover. When I saw this as one of the audiobooks available on Scribd’s audiobook section I figured it was time…
