Warning: Abundance of Stephen Colbert gifs ahead. If you haven’t heard, BEA announced yesterday that they will be limiting/capping the number of people who can enter BEA this year (2017) in an effort to get the convention back to what it once was; an event for industry professionals and booksellers to be able to network […]
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Discussion: I am YA
I’m not a teen anymore. I haven’t been for two years. I am friends with a lot of awesome people who haven’t been teens for awhile, and some brand new non-teens. We all enjoy YA. Duh, that’s why most of us have blogs, Youtube channels, snapchats, Instagram’s, and Twitter accounts dedicated to interacting and socializing […]
Discussion: My Blogging Journey + a Video!
Remember awhile back how all those Youtubers were doing that “Draw Your Life” thing with the white boards and stuff? I’ve always wanted to do one of those but I condensed mine down to a quickie version of how I got into book blogging. As most of you know, I’ve been doing this blogging shtick […]
Discussion: What the Book Blogging Community Gave Me
I’ve been doing this blogging shindig for five years. FIVE YEARS. There’s been a lot of ups and downs (mostly ups!) and lately I’ve been thinking about what the book blogging community, and book blogging in general, have given me. @ThePaige_Turner friendship + found my way to express my love for books. 🙂 — Christine […]
Discussion: The DaVinci Code “YA adaption”/An Open Letter to Dan Brown
Put yourself in my shoes: you’ve just woken up. You’re reading your emails over breakfast, and you see one from Penguin Random House. “Cool!” you think. Maybe there’s going to be a new book out! You continue reading, you see that The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown is being “adapted” into a YA novel, essentially […]
Staying Positive Amidst Negativity (aka we all love you)
There’s been a bit of a…hub bub in the blogger world as of late. This past week saw a large amount of highs and lows (this was for me personally and a lot of other people too). There was just A LOT going on. So, I just wanted to write something short and sweet about […]
Discussion: New (and old) Favorites
You’ve been asked the question a hundred times before: What’s your favorite book? Whenever someone used to ask me this question I felt such a soul crushing panic because for awhile I didn’t know. I always found myself floundering for words and blurting out a book that I thought they would also like, or something […]