December 2010
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2011 DAC - January Reads
I’m thinking of choosing from the following YA debuts for my January review. All descriptions are from Amazon.com:
XVI by Julia Karr:
Nina Oberon’s life is pretty normal: she hangs out with her best friend, Sandy, and their crew, goes to school, plays with her little sister, Dee. But Nina is 15. And like all girls she’ll receive a Governing Council-ordered tattoo on her...
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Kindle Allows for Lending Books →
I actually like this idea! Perhaps if they increased it to 21 days for slow readers, having your Kindle allow for lending books to friends for a particular period of time is pretty much what you would do with a real book. Though, in this case you still have your book and your friend can’t keep it and forget to give it back.
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2011 DAC - January Reads
I’m thinking of choosing from the following YA debuts for my January review. All descriptions are from Amazon.com:
XVI by Julia Karr:
Nina Oberon’s life is pretty normal: she hangs out with her best friend, Sandy, and their crew, goes to school, plays with her little sister, Dee. But Nina is 15. And like all girls she’ll receive a Governing Council-ordered tattoo on her...
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YA Reading Challenge
I’ll be doing theYA Reading Challenge for 2011. I’ve decided to do the The Mini YA Reading Challenge, which means I’ll be reading 12 YA novels in 2011. As an added challenge to myself, these will not include any YA novels that are already being read in other challenges.
I’ve thought ahead about the books I’d like to read and came up with the following:
01. White...
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Off the Shelf Challenge
I’ve decided to do the BA Reading, Off the Shelf Challenge. I’ve chosen the Trying Challenge Level which means I have to read 15 books!
01. Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd … Holly Black, Cecil Castellucci
02. Zombies vs. Unicorms … Holly Black, Justine Larbalestier
03. Emma Brown … Clare Boylan
04. Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover … Ally Carter
05. How My Private Journal Became a...
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The 2011 Debut Author Challenge
I’ve been meaning to set up a blog to review books, but never really figured out how to get things off the ground. I stumbled upon The Story Siren towards the end of this year and then upon the 2011 Debut Author Challenge and figured, why not give it a try?
So this it the initiation of this review site, I have an entire year, we’ll see how things fan out.