Young Adult Appreciation Month – Week 3 Schedule

It’s sayonara Week 2, and konnichiwa Week 3! The madness continues with another ridiculously full week of reviews, but first, a few announcements:

Giveaway Winners:

First up, we’ve got our winner of For the Win by Cory Doctorow:

And our two lucky winners of Early to Death, Early to Rise:

Bits and bobs

So, our book discussion of Sisters Red on why we did not like the book, seemed to have caused quite an impact.

The author herself came over to comment which basically consisted of telling us in CAPITAL LETTERS, what were her INTENTIONS when writing the book. We, of course, replied to her comment at length trying to explain that once a book has been published, the author’s “intentions” don’t mean a thing: the book is out there in the world to be interpreted by the readers. Although we might as well have simply said: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” because the author probably did not read our reply – since she was very vocal both here and on twitter that “she doesn’t read the comments” and “For the record, I haven’t re-read the review in question since responding, and don’t plan to. I’ve said my piece, no interest in arguing”. Which is totally her prerogative of course, but we wonder: why comment at all if you don’t plan to be a part of a conversation? But we think that the best answer came from this post at Manifesta: The Difference Between Intention and What Actually Happened which is well worth a read.

Join us in celebrating YA!

Don’t Forget: on Sunday 15th of August, as part of our last week of YYAM, we cordially invite you to write a post about anything Young Adult. Anything counts: a review of an old favorite, a review of a new (or new to you) YA novel that you recently discovered, a post examining YA, or even a piece on why you DON’T read YA. Anything at all, as long as it is about YA.

You still have some time to prepare and you can comment on this post and/or email us (contact AT thebooksmugglers DOT com) if you have any questions or need suggestions.

Anyone with a blog can join. On August 15th we will post a Mr Linky post and you can add the link to your blog. Join us!

This Week on the Book Smugglers

On Monday, Thea reviews the first two books in the Salt trilogy by Maurice Gee – Salt and Gool

On Tuesday, Ana reviews her first ever Jaclyn Moriarty book: The Ghosts of Ashbury High

On Wednesday Thea reviews…… while Ana reviews LGBT novel My Most Excellent Year

On Thursday, we post our joint review of award winning How I Live Now by Med Rosoff

On Friday it is a What She Said day! Thea reviews Ana’s favorite book of 2010 so far Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves while Ana take on That Book That Made Thea All Tingly Inside: Hero by Perry Moore.

And finally, on Saturday, author Sarah Rees Brennan is our guest author for the day with an article on Why Read Ya.

aaaaand that’s it from us today!