SHIFT Blog Tour – Deleted Scene Guest Post with Jeri Smith-Ready
I’m so excited to have Jeri Smith-Ready on the blog today as part of her SHIFT tour. Jeri will be around the blogosphere plus there’s daily prizes & a grand prize too! Last year, I fell in love with SHADE and have been dying (no pun intended) ever since to read SHIFT. The combination of love, music, a unique spin on a supernatural world (should I mention a hottie with an Irish accent?) had me hooked. Take it away Jeri!————————————————————– Thanks to Mel for hosting me today on the SHIFT blog tour! After the post, check out your chance to win books and a special prize. I’m insane about revising. I don’t just revise or even rewrite a book—I dismantle it and rebuild it from the ground up. A first draft is … Read entire article »
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Book Signings & Ebooks…What Do You Do?
With the emergance of ebooks and ereaders, I have been humming and hawing over the switch. I’m an old dinosaur and still love holding my books, love looking at all the books on my bookshelf. After considering all the pros and cons, at this point I’m still not convinced the ebook is right for me. One thing I hadn’t even considered though was book signings! I just came across this blog post by Scholastic: The digital future of autographing books So what do you do if you are attending a bookish event and have the ebook? If it’s all about the convience of having the ebook ready in an instant, do you also buy the hardcopy? If not, would signed swag make up for it? … Read entire article »
Do You Know About the CCBC? Win a Membership!
I only recently became aware of a wonderful not-for-profit organization, Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) that supports & promotes reading, writing, illustrating and publishing of Canadian children’s books. If you are a teacher, librarian, bookseller or even a parent, I urge you visit www.bookcentre.ca where you can find a plethora of information including books by theme, suggested titles by age groups, award winners and what to look for when choosing books for kids. It’s like an untapped goldmine focusing on Canadian literature! Are you interested in learning more about the Canadian book scene? Canadian Children’s Book News is a quarterly magazine that gives you that and more. Inside you will find reviews for recommended books, author and illustrator interviews, award winners plus profiles of publishers and bookstores. The quarterly magazines as … Read entire article »
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Review: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Hardcover, 338 pages Released: March 22, 2011 Publisher: Philomel Books ISBN13: 9780399254123 Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin’s orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions. Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously—and at great risk—documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father’s prison … Read entire article »
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Review: Red Glove by Holly Black
Curses and cons. Magic and the mob. In Cassel Sharpe’s world, they go together. Cassel always thought he was an ordinary guy, until he realized his memories were being manipulated by his brothers. Now he knows the truth—he’s the most powerful curse worker around. A touch of his hand can transform anything—or anyone—into something else. That was how Lila, the girl he loved, became a white cat. Cassel was tricked into thinking he killed her, when actually he tried to save her. Now that she’s human again, he should be overjoyed. Trouble is, Lila’s been cursed to love him, a little gift from his emotion worker mom. And if Lila’s love is as phony as Cassel’s made-up memories, then he can’t believe anything she says or does. cont’d Last year, when … Read entire article »
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There’s Lead in Your Lipstick by Gillian Deacon – Blog Tour
Today is day 2 (yesterday’s stop on the tour was at Rayment’s Readings, Rants and Ramblings) of the blog tour for There’s Lead in Your Lipstick and I’m excited to be a part of this event! There is increased awareness about products we are using/consuming, but there is still so much for us all to learn to be able to lead an overall healthier style of living. And that’s where Gillian Deacon comes in. Read a little bit about Gillian’s thoughts on how we can start a better future right now: A special Earth Day message from Gillian Deacon: Earth day shouldn’t just be an annual tip of the hat to greener living. This year, make it the day you recalibrate your everyday patterns to be more earth-friendly all year long. You don’t have to be a treehugger … Read entire article »
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? April 11, 2011
It’s Monday! What are you reading? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to join in this weekly event if you’d like as well as use the picture above. Thanks Sheila for hosting! Last week: I reviewed Red Glove by Holly Black. Such a great book, exactly what I was hoping it would be like! In preparation for City of Fallen Angels, I finished City of Glass by Cassie Clare. What an addicting series, I can’t wait to dig into City of Fallen Angels but have a few books that need my attention first. This week:I started Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. My maternal Grandparents lived through this. My Grandfather is Estonian and but … Read entire article »
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Review: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder – much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing – not even a smear of blood – to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy? This is Clary’s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It’s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into … Read entire article »
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Review: Red Glove by Holly Black
Hardcover, 320 pages Release date: April 5, 2011 Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry ISBN13: 9781442403390 Curses and cons. Magic and the mob. In Cassel Sharpe’s world, they go together. Cassel always thought he was an ordinary guy, until he realized his memories were being manipulated by his brothers. Now he knows the truth—he’s the most powerful curse worker around. A touch of his hand can transform anything—or anyone—into something else. That was how Lila, the girl he loved, became a white cat. Cassel was tricked into thinking he killed her, when actually he tried to save her. Now that she’s human again, he should be overjoyed. Trouble is, Lila’s been cursed to love him, a little gift from his emotion worker mom. And if Lila’s love is as phony as Cassel’s made-up memories, … Read entire article »
Filed under: book review, Holly Black, Red Glove
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