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Cybils finalists are up! Woot!

January 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Guess what, everyone? The Cybils finalists have been posted! The fruits of my personal labor are here: Graphic Novels Finalists. There’s some truly fabulous stuff in there for all ages and tastes.
I also can’t wait to read the Fantasy & Science Fiction, YA, and Middle Grade lists — and then start foisting [...]

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Dudes, I’m a panelist!

October 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Remember how I said yesterday that you should nominate books for the Cybil awards? Well, now that goes double, ’cause now I’m a panelist!
I’m a member of the Graphic Novel Panel! Squee! Could not be more excited, seriously.
And now y’all need to go nominate graphic novels, especially, so that I [...]

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Fantasy birth control

August 19th, 2008 · 7 Comments

I just finished a wonderful book called Graceling, by Kristin Cashore. I’ll wait on the review, because the book doesn’t come out until October, and I don’t want you to forget about it because you can’t read it right now. (I don’t have a lending copy, unfortunately.) But I was talking with [...]

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Tags: Book lists · Musing

Apocalypse how?

April 7th, 2008 · 9 Comments

I wrote recently about the fact that my mental picture of “apocalypse” is stuck in the Cold War — instantaneous disaster, as opposed to the currently more likely slow(-ish) environmental collapse. I mused about what current YA readers of science fiction will picture, which made me wonder: other than Uglies, what’s being written in [...]

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Tags: Book lists · Environment · Links · Musing

Luuurrrve stories

February 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Happy Valentine’s Day (and happy birthday, Parenthetical)! In honor of the occasion, I give you five YA love stories guaranteed to make you feel all warm and snuggly inside:
1. Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare — When you think “romance,” you probably don’t think “Puritan New England.” But Blackbird Pond was [...]

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