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A year ago today I started this blog. In that year I have gotten an agent, seen one book published, sold two others, finished another, met a million cool people including some of my favorite authors, demolished half a house, spent a ton of money, earned considerably less, cried a lot, laughed a lot, written … More IT’S MY BLOGIVERSARY!!!
The Sizzling Summer Reads Giveaway is over folks. And what fun it was to hear from a bunch of new visitors and followers as well as from some old friends. Once again I relied on the folks at Random.org to give me the winners of the giveaway. So here they are:
For this week’s Marvelous Middle Grade Monday I whipped through the Newbery Honor Book BREAKING STALIN’S NOSE by Eugene Yelchin. Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism. A Young Pioneer is a reliable … More MMGM: BREAKING STALIN’S NOSE by Eugene Yelchin
This week for MMGM I’m clearing my shelves a bit. As part of the Sizzling Summer Reads Giveaway I’m letting go of a bunch of stuff. Comment below and let me know if you are a follower and which one you’d like to win to enter. I will draw one name for each book available … More MMGM and Sizzling Summer GIVEAWAY!
I’m a Reader Not a Writer had a great giveaway this last week. I had so much fun participating. Thanks everyone for entering and supporting YA fiction and bloggers. Onto the winner: I had 69 entries in this giveaway and since I didn’t use a giveaway widget I needed a way to choose my winner. Luckily … More YOUNG ADULT GIVEAWAY HOP – SKINNY by Donna Cooner – WINNER!
Hey readers! Pop over to versenovels.com for a giveaway! This week on Marvelous Middle Grade Monday (sponsored by the lovely Shannon Messenger) I’d like to talk about sleuths. But first, some painful childhood reminiscence. Despite my mother being a public librarian, as a child I didn’t use the library nearly as much as you might think. I … More Marvelous Middle Grade Monday – SLEUTHS!
UPDATE: click here for another giveaway! I’m a Reader Not a Writer is hosting a giveaway hop this month and I thought I’d join in the fun by giving away an ARC of SKINNYby Donna Cooner. Here’s the details from Goodreads: Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful. These are the words of Skinny, the vicious voice that lives … More YOUNG ADULT GIVEAWAY HOP – SKINNY by Donna Cooner
I wasn’t going to go Olympic for this week’s Terrific Teen. Goodness knows there are enough terrific teens competing in London right now and they all deserve accolades. But I’m not really that into sports so I was going to avoid jumping on the band wagon. But who could resist 16-year-old Gabby Douglas? She shares my … More Terrific Teen Tuesday – Gabby Douglas
Not long ago I entered a contest on Twitter, asking entrants to detail a mischievous act. I told about the time I filled the fountain in front of city hall with laundry soap and red food coloring so it was pink and bubbly the next day. Ah, high school. Anyway, I won the contest and the … More Marvelous Middle Grade Monday – The Merits of Mischief: The Bad Apple
So last week I ranted about criminal justice in the USA. In this post I’d like to combine some more thoughts on this topic with reviews of three excellent books on the subject. PARANOIA AND HEARTBREAK by Jerome Gold is made up of unedited entries in the journals Gold kept while he worked at Ash … More Fighting (and losing) The War on (brown-skinned) Boys.
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