Nerds Heart YA is an annual bracket-style tournament dedicated to appreciating and showcasing new titles that are underrepresented in YA fiction. In 2011, the third year of the event, the central focus of the tournament continued to be on…
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Fury Blog Tour & Giveaway: Elizabeth Miles on Inspirations & Influences
Hello everybody! Today we welcome Elizabeth Miles, author of Fury (which is AWESOME) to the blog with a guest post on her inspirations & influences. Please give it up for Elizabeth! Elizabeth Miles’ Top 8 Influences and Inspirations I…
In recent years, the Superhero has been making it to the Silver Screen in a big way. Beyond just the usual Batman and Superman reboots, select lesser-known heroes have been getting their turn in the mainstream spotlight. This summer,…
Hey folks! As it’s officially summer and we’re halfway through the year, we decided that it was high time to start keeping score – of our favorite books of the year, that is. Without further ado, we present you…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
Headline, the UK publisher of Stories, the anthology edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, came up with a brilliant idea to celebrate the paperback release this month: they invited a bunch of bloggers, including us, to participate on…
If you tried visiting the blog over the past few days, you probably noticed that THERE WAS NO BLOG and freaked out. We understand the feeling. Believe us. On Tuesday, our old server simply suspended our account without any…
As you may have heard, the last week of September each year represents annual Banned Books Week – a week in which we celebrate our rights to intellectual freedom. Every year, hundreds of books are challenged and/or banned from…
It is day 4 of the BBAW 2010, and today’s suggested blogging topic is: Forgotten Treasure Sure we’ve all read about Freedom and Mockingjay but we likely have a book we wish would get more attention by book bloggers,…
As the fun with Book Blogger Appreciation Week continues, today’s suggested blogging theme is: Unexpected Treasure We invite you to share with us a book or genre you tried due to the influence of another blogger. What made you…
Let’s celebrate, for Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2010 officially starts today! Yay! This year’s theme is “A Treasure Chest of Infinite Books and Infinite Blogs.” We are going to take part in the festivities as much as I can,…
We are pleased to announce the winners of our recent giveaways. First up, the 25 winners of the Mockingjay iSkins. We had a record number of entries – 471 – thank you very much to all who participated with…
Hey folks! As it’s officially the beginning of summer and we’re halfway through the year, we decided that it was time to start keeping score – of our favorite books of the year, that is. Without further ado, we…
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Book Expo America 2010 Or: How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Hundreds of Pounds of Books – Final Report
This is our final report for Book Expo America 2010, go HERE for Days 0/1 and HERE for Day 2 DAY THREE: Book Blogger Convention, Tour of Hachette, and AWESOME Japanese food Ana: I have always wanted to attend…
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Book Expo America 2010 Or: How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Hundreds of Pounds of Books – Day 2
This is our report for Day 2 of Book Expo America 2010, go HERE for Days 0/1 DAY TWO: The Lack of Will Power, Alchoholic Pasta, Geeking Out and a Smugglerific Party Thea and Ana getting ready to rock…
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BookExpo America, Or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hundreds of Pounds of Books – Day 0/1
For the past few weeks, there has been only one thing on our minds. Three tiny little initials, that encompassed the pinnacle (thus far) of our Book Smuggling careers: In the two years that we have been running The…
Happy Tuesday, everyone! You know what Tuesdays mean: a new episode of LOST, and glorious book releases. Along with Michael Grant’s Lies and Jeri Smith-Ready’s Shade, also hitting stores today in the United Kingdom is the third and final…
Our giveaway of Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Weingarten has officially come to a close, and we’ve got THREE lucky giveaway winners to announce. Nina was beautiful, wild, and adored by her younger sister, Ellie. But, one day, Nina…
Yesterday was the official release date of Black Magic Sanction, the eighth book in Kim Harrison’s ongoing Rachel Morgan/The Hollows series. In New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison’s most complex and nuanced adventure yet, bounty hunter and witch…
Howdy folks! We’ve been seeing a number of surveys and questionnaires pop up around the blogosphere – and we want to join in the self-improvement sentiment. We’ve put together a little survey about our site, and we are dying…
Format is as follows: Title, Author, Rating, Genre * Denotes JOINT REVIEW ** Denotes GUEST DARE RED denotes favorite of 2009 BLUE denotes honorable mention of 2009 JANUARY: Thea: Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James, 7, Romance (Contemporary) Titan…
Format is as follows: Title, Author, Rating, Genre * Denotes JOINT REVIEW ** Denotes GUEST DARE RED denotes favorite of 2009 BLUE denotes honorable mention of 2009 JANUARY: Thea: Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 8, Mystery Desperate Duchesses…
For the past few months, we have been including an “On our Radar” section in our weekly stash for books that have caught our eye; books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular…
Today the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its final revised guidelines governing endorsements and testimonials. While this usually would not be of interest or concern us in any way, these revised guidelines have a new stipulation covering bloggers and…
September 26 – October 3 marks Banned Books Week 2009. It’s a week during which we celebrate our rights of intellectual freedom – our freedom to read, express, and explore ideas, even if such ideas are “unorthodox or unpopular.”…