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VALENTINE PRINCESS by Meg Cabot
Haha! I found one more that I hadn't read. It is a mini-book, a novela, a great way to cash in if you're Meg Cabot. It is Volume IV and a quarter. It's about three chapters worth of writing, designed to satisfy the reader during the gap between full books. No offense...
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (and a few white lies) by Justina Chen Headley
I love, love, love this book. This is a FANTASTIC book. Stop what you're doing and go get a copy right now. It is witty and clever and the author has such an amazing grasp of language that she plays with it in ways you rarely get to experience. You get the feeling...
WILD TREES by Richard Preston
I'm not trying to be mean, but the author is infinitely more interesting than this book. The book is nonfiction and is about giant redwoods and the scientists who discover and climb them. The thing is...it's boring in an oddly fascinating way. I had to get the large...
Princess on the Brink – Meg Cabot
Say what you will, I love the Princess Diaries books. The only thing I don't like about them is I read them so fast and then just as I'm getting into it, it's over and I have to wait a year or whatever for the next one. Yeah, they're all the same...but Cabot is quite...
Mini-break from the break
By mini-break I do not mean a weekend getaway like Bridget Jones takes in her books...I mean I have washed enough of the paint off my hands from remodeling my kitchen to type a rant. Here is my rant... Yahoo now has a spell check feature. Like Word, it underlines any...
BRIDES OF EDEN by Linda Crew
Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined A mysterious man tears a small town apart with his seductive new religion. I started a few other books since I last posted, but none of them grabbed me, including that other one in verse that shall remain unnamed here. However,...
A break
Hi, All. Well, I was going to start this on Monday, but I just realized I forgot to post today anyway, so I may as well start now. I am taking a break from this blog until the end of July. No, not a vacation. A vacation would involve beaches, waiters bringing me...
Today’s humorous animal story brought to you by Arthur Slade
I decided to take the day off since my pal, Arthur Slade wrote a humorous animal story this week and it was hilarious. Enjoy! See you tomorrow with a new author interview or profile (haven't decided yet). And don't forget to enter to win free books!
My Writing/Your Writing – Words of Wisdom
I am doing my favorite part...revision. Last week I finished my new YA. Usually I can't wait to jump into the revision, but this time I just let it sit for a week or so. I started to worry that maybe I wasn't excited about it or something, but when I picked it up...
Teen Topic Tuesday – Summer Reading
Are you joining a summer reading program at your local library? I was checking some out across the country and found some interesting stuff. At the Multnomah County Library, in Portland, OR, you can not only participate, but volunteer to help. Sounds like fun to me....
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MILLIONS by Frank Cottrell Boyce & THE GEOGRAPHY OF GIRLHOOD by Kirsten Smith
I loved this book. I knew I would because I also loved his book FRAMED. It's impossible to read this book without being amazed at the sheer knowledge he packs into it without being boring! In FRAMED, he gave the reader a wonderful art education. In this one, you learn...
Author Interview – Kathy Erskine
Kathy Erskine's YA novel, QUAKING, was released yesterday, so run out and get your copy today! Also, one of Kathy's friends, Anne Marie Pace, is giving away a signed copy of QUAKING, so drop in and visit her live journal to enter (through today only). Just so you...
No…I haven’t fallen into a hole!
I am still alive, but actually, I have been in a hole. A Harry Potter hole. I somehow didn't get HP #5 on CD, so I read that one. Then I listened to all of #6 except the climax because for some reason, I was missing those chapters on my iPod! It was all good though....
My Writing/Your Writing
I love to write. No, I mean it. I really, really love to write. Last fall, I thought, "Gosh...I'm soooo tired all the time. My brain is kind of fuzzy too." After contemplating it, I figured out what was wrong. I hadn't had a day off four months. Seriously. None. I had...
Teen Topic Tuesday – Summer jobs
My parents did things differently. My dad had worked from the time he could deliver papers and my mother tells of picking beans as a kid. For that reason, they let me be a total slacker every summer while I was still in school (and actually even the summer after I...
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Next week – an interview with Kathy Erskine
Please excuse Joelle Anthony from her usually scheduled Author Interview/Profile as she has a headache and wants to use her limited computer time for writing. Check in next week for more fun and games including a Friday interview with writer, Kathy Erskine.