YA Lit, and Why Everyone Should Read It

Maureen Johnson brought my attention to a great post this morning on In The Library With The Lead Pipe by Gretchen Kolderup, a YA librarian, about everything that’s great about the category, and why people should read it. It’s a long post, but well worth your time. I just wanted to pull out [...]

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Ask Daphne! About My Query LXVI

Posting these shoes to go with Rissa’s query because they look sort of like the ones worn by Sasha Alexander in the promo for TNT’s new series Rizzoli & Isles (based on books by Tess Gerritsen), and I’m in serious lust over them. But no, they don’t have anything to do with this query, [...]

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Ask Daphne! About My Query XXV

I have discovered photos of shoes from Fashion Weeks around the world (these ones are from last fall’s Louis Vuitton show in Paris), and think I can die a happy Daphne now. Although, if I tried to walk in these, I’d probably fall down. Which ties in nicely with C.L.N’s About MY Query [...]

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Recent Reads: City of Bones

As per my promise, yesterday I finished City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, and can’t wait to start on the next book in the series! I definitely felt like the world of the Shadowhunters was a very full one, and hope that later books explore it even more, so I get a better sense [...]

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Sekrits and Squicks

Working on something exciting — two somethings exciting actually — but I’m not quite ready to release the news. In the meantime, I wanted to point you towards this interesting post on The Enchanted Inkpot about the May/December romances that repeatedly pop up on teen paranormal romances. Late, late Decembers. As Alison [...]

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