This Rec League comes from Kayla. Thanks, Kayla! I’m dying for some BIPOC vampires I can really sink my teeth into. Ideally wise cracking and leather pants wearing but I’m not that picky. I just want more diversity in my night life. Shana: Well, there’s classics that I love, like Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories , Tananarive Due’s My Soul to Keep , and Octavia Butler’s Fledgling , but that doesn’t get you the lighthearted … Continue reading The Rec League: BIPOC Vampires →
Is it nearly the end of October already? I feel like we were just doing Whatcha Reading last week! We hope all of you have been enjoying some quality reading time this month, and we wish we were sorry about the damage these comments are about to do to your TBR. Sarah: I’m nearly done with my fall window cross stitch, so I finished the audiobook of A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen two days … Continue reading Whatcha Reading? October 2018 Edition →
Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings. These are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries. Fifteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, heartbreaking, romantic, and passionate. Compiled by We Need Diverse Books’s Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, the authors included in this exquisite collection are: … Continue reading A Thousand Beginnings and Endings →
by SB Sarah · Jul 2, 2011 at 4:36 am ·
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Winner: Pieces of Sky by Kaki Warner (Berkley Sensation; Wendy McCurdy, editor) Finalists: ▪ Enemy Within by Marcella Burnard (Berkley; Leis Pederson, editor) ▪ Firestorm by Kelly Ann Riley (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense; Tina James, editor) ▪ I Now Pronounce You Someone Else by Erin McCahan (Scholastic; Cheryl Klein, editor) ▪ The Iron King by Julie Kagawa (Harlequin Teen; Natashya Wilson, editor) ▪ Pieces of Sky by Kaki Warner (Berkley Sensation; Wendy McCurdy, editor) … Continue reading 2011 RITA Winner for Best First Book →
by SB Sarah · Jul 2, 2011 at 4:02 am ·
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Winner: The Iron King by Julie Kagawa (Harlequin Teen; Natashya Wilson, editor) Finalists: ▪ Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schroeder (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing; Annette Pollert, editor) ▪ The Clearing by Heather Davis (Houghton Mifflin Graphia; Julie Tibbott, editor) ▪ Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing; Karen Wojtyla, editor) ▪ I Now Pronounce You Someone Else by Erin McCahan (Scholastic; Cheryl Klein, editor) ▪ The Iron King by Julie Kagawa (Harlequin … Continue reading 2011 RITA Winner for Young Adult Romance →
A lot of people try to see all the Best Picture nominees before the Oscars ceremony- so let’s do that for the RITAs, shall we? I looked at the list of RITA® nominated books from the RWA and there were a lot of books I was curious about. I’m not going to be able to read every nominated book before the ceremony… but I can read one in each category – and I invite you … Continue reading The RITA Reading Challenge 2011 →
by SB Sarah · Mar 15, 2011 at 11:49 am ·
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I had a request for the runners up in the reader nominations for the DABWAHA, so here are the top ten books, with the finalist and the nine runners up as nominated by readers in each category. An asterisk denotes a tie. YA 1. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Finalist) 2. Matched by Ally Condie 3. Linger by Maggie Stiefvater 4. The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong 5. The Duff by Kody Keplinger 6. Revolution by Jennifer … Continue reading Reader Nomination Runners Up →
