Confession: one of the girls in my Girl Scout troop doesn’t know my name. She keeps calling me “Miss Lovato” and I just stopped correcting her, because I’m totally fine if she gets me confused with Demi Lovato. If any of you have been following the Team Selena/Team Demi nonsense, it’s hard not to think… Continue reading Music Monday: Skyscraper
Review: Uglies and Extras
I read and loved Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies trilogy well before I started this blog, so I haven’t reviewed it here. And anyway, you’ve probably already read it. Briefly: compelling, great world building, insightful cultural commentary, A+. But I only recently read Extras, the fourth book of the former-trilogy. I was a little nervous about it–I… Continue reading Review: Uglies and Extras
Review: The Kakapo
Last week for my children’s nonfiction class, we had to read two books about the kakapo, an endangered New Zealand parrot. Neither of the books, strictly speaking, were YA books, but they were both great and the kakapo is an amazing bird and I am going to blog about it. So there. Kakapo! Here are… Continue reading Review: The Kakapo
Music Monday: What Time Is It
Sigh, you guys, we had some weirdly warm weather for a few weeks and then it abruptly went back to being winter. Stupid winter. I’m trying to warm myself up with summery thoughts–like High School Musical 2, set during the extremely dramatic summer between the kids’ junior and senior year of high school. Also: this… Continue reading Music Monday: What Time Is It
Review: Leviathan
I know Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan trilogy is pretty popular, and I’d heard a lot of good things about it. But I simply didn’t think I was interested in it–a steampunk alt-history of WWI? Ugh, but I don’t really like steampunk or war stories. But I kept hearing such good things about it, and I remembered… Continue reading Review: Leviathan
Music Monday: Like Wow!
Last week I was perusing Give Me Something To Read and came across an article entitled “The Devil in Greg Dark.” I started reading it and was confused to see that it was from 2001–Give Me Something to Read usually posts recent articles. But I quickly realized that the article was really about Leslie Carter,… Continue reading Music Monday: Like Wow!
Review: The Fault in Our Stars
Okay. There’s probably no point in me reviewing The Fault in Our Stars by John Green since by now it’s been a NYT bestseller for a couple weeks in a row (not to mention that it was also a bestseller in pre-sales) and you’ve probably already read it. But nevertheless, I read it and I… Continue reading Review: The Fault in Our Stars
Music Monday: Mahna Mahna
Hey guys. It’s been awhile since I blogged, and the reasons are: final exams, extended travels, and laziness. I don’t really feel bad about it, though. I mean, I post at a YA blog. It’s not like I took two months off from curing cancer or something. Still, hope you didn’t miss me too much.… Continue reading Music Monday: Mahna Mahna
Movie Review: Breaking Dawn, Part 1
So! I saw the Breaking Dawn movie. As is true of the entire series of Twilight movies, this one was faster-paced and wittier than the book. However, the book is a horribly clunky monstrosity, so I’m not saying too much. Still, which would you rather have: book Bella’s whiny internal monologue about how everyone will… Continue reading Movie Review: Breaking Dawn, Part 1
Music Tuesday: Drummer Boy
OK, there are a lot of posts I want to write, including some book reviews and all of my intense thoughts about the Breaking Dawn movie. But those are going to have to wait until I’m finished with this semester of grad school. For now, let me just say that I have been listening to… Continue reading Music Tuesday: Drummer Boy