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YA Books I’d Love to See as Anime

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I’m kind of falling out of love with  YA movie adaptions, but I think there are so many books that would make some great anime ! With the right animation and voice acting I can see these YA books coming to life in a whole new way.

Anime is all about the blue hair don’t care



Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

I have two reasons for this pick 1.) a live action movie would have to be very expensive to get the chimeras right and 2.) Karou has blue hair !  From Pokemon to Sword Art Online, anime is the trope codifier forYou Gotta Have Blue Hair.

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BookExpo America Chicago

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I’m not much of a traveler so when I heard BEA was moving to Chicago I  had no plans of going. But at the start of the year I had a change of heart and decided going to Chicago would be a bit of an adventure

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Opening Up Book Riot’s First YA Quaterly Box

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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.

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If These Books Were Judged By Their Covers

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One of the best parts of books are the covers ! Each week we’ll look at the recent cover reveals and give some judgement. . . even though we have no qualifications whatsoever.

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Book Swap #1 ! The Golem and The Jinni / Fangirl

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Jess and I did a book swap as a way to force the other to read and review a book. The theme for our first book swap was 5-star reviews; we gave each other a book we’d previously reviewed as five stars. Jess gave me The Golem in The Jinni and I gave her Fangirl.

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