I will be heading to Ireland this summer and my iPad is ready to travel with me. As most readers know, I am a paper books gal. I love paper, the smell of a new book, and the feeling of holding a book in my hands. However, I am a fast reader. I can’t carry [...]
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This summer I had to pack up my classroom library. No, I’m not moving classrooms. I actually did that in the middle of the year. And I am not changing schools, either. (Thank goodness!). Just normal end-of-the-year cleaning. Because I dread putting everything into boxes, I posted a message on our school’s electronic BBS and [...]
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Nerds Heart YA is in its 3rd year and aims to bring attention to books that deserve it, but may not have gotten a lot of buzz. According to the site, “the contest focuses specifically on books that in some way represent groups of people who are typically under represented in YA fiction.” According to [...]
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Happy Birthday to Me!
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It’s like I’ve been given a time turner. Today, JK Rowling is making a major announcement. After years of spending my summers awaiting the newest Harry Potter book in the series, it’s been sad to watch my summers go by without any news from Rowling. But when the news broke that she would be making [...]
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A few years ago I read and loved Mary Pearson’s The Adoration of Jenna Fox. I was overjoyed when I recently discovered that she had written a companion novel. I was fortunate to pick up a signed ARC of The Fox Inheritance (The Jenna Fox Chronicles) at BEA and I read through it during the [...]
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This book is going to be huge. Get your pre-orders in and block off some time on October 18th. This is a book you won’t be able to put down so you will have to read it straight through in one sitting. The Scorpio Races is like nothing I have read before. The Scorpio Races [...]
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Every summer I try to read a few new professional books. I add books to my Goodreads list all year, knowing that I will finally have time to read them in July and August. This year has been an especially good year for some of my favorite professional authors, and I am looking forward to digging [...]
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Can you believe that it’s almost the end of the school year? I’m sure some of you are already out of school! Here in NJ, we have about 2-2.5 weeks left this year and then it’s summer! But summer doesn’t mean no work. I will be spending a good portion of the summer reflecting on [...]
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I love MotherReader’s 48 Hour Book Challenge! Stats : Time spent reading- 15 hours and 14 minutes Time spent blogging/tweeting- 2 hrs and 40 minutes (#YAsaves totally counts) Total: 17 hours and 54 minutes! Total Pages read: 3135 Total Books: 13 Books Read: The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater- My favorite Maggie Stiefvater book. Water horses? [...]
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