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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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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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The Dream Theives by Maggie Stiefvater

September 13, 2013      2 Comments

  • Release Date: September 17th 2013
  • Pages: 448 Pages
  • Genre: Gothic/Magic Realism/Supernatural/ Paranormal ???
  • Publisher: Scholastic

Synopsis: Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after...

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Audiobook Review : Joyland by Stephen King

August 13, 2013      5 Comments

 

“When you’re twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you’ve been looking at the map upside down, and not until you’re forty are you entirely sure. By the time you’re sixty, take it from me, you’re fucking lost.” 

― Stephen King, Joyland


Release Date: June 4th 2013

Pages: 288

Hours: 7 hours and 33 minutes

Publisher: Hard Case Crimes

Audio Publisher: Simon and Schuster Audio

Yep, I’m reviewing an adult book. I’ve been listening to the Book Riot podcast lately where they discuss mainly adult books, and it’s made me want to get into more adult lit. Now, I read a few of Stephen King’s well known short stories like Children of the Corn and The Langoliers in high school. And while I never found the stories interesting enough to take on a full novel, I  remember the stories and writing were good, so I figured I’d start my adult reviewing with Stephen King….

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The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle

August 6, 2013      3 Comments

  • Release Date: August 20th 2013
  • Publisher: Amulet Books (Abrams)
  • Pages: 336
  • Genre: Contemporary

Synopsis: For as long as she can remember, Wren Gray’s goal has been to please her parents. But as high school graduation nears, so does an uncomfortable realization: Pleasing her parents once overlapped with pleasing herself, but now . . . not so much. Wren needs to honor her own desires, but how can she if she doesn’t even know what they are?

It’s all ending for Wren Gray…

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