The Cover Wars: Fantasy Edition
The Cover Wars! Wherein your Book Wars Bloggers (Janet, Yash, Nafiza and Steph) judge books by their covers. It’s great fun :) Today’s choice are covers of fantasy novels that […]
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Dystopia – a list!
Hello all! This is it! This is the end of November and therefore the end of dystopia month. There is so much more to talk about but I thought I’d […]
Interlude: The Hunger Games, as drawn by Noelle Stevenson
This is a brief interlude from all the gloom and doom parts of dystopia. (Sorry, Steph!) The brilliant Noelle Stevenson, also known as Gingerhaze, creator of the Nimona webcomic (more […]
Slated – Teri Terry (review)
Paperback, 448 pages Published May 3rd 2012 by Orchard Books Source: Library Slated presents to the world a viable solution to terrorists and other deviants that threaten the peace in […]
Top Ten Tuesday: Things We Are Thankful For
This week’s topic for TTT from The Broke and the Bookish is about bookish or non-bookish things that we are thankful* for. *drops gauntlet* I challenge my team to not be cheesy […]
The Importance of Motivation: Why the Giver sent Jonas to his doom
NOTE** this is a guest post I wrote for Rate Your Story an awesome blog for aspiring writers :) I sat down and read Lois Lowry’s Newbery award winning The Giver […]
Publisher Spotlight: Groundwood Books
Today’s spotlight falls on Groundwood Books. They describe themselves as: Groundwood Books, established in 1978, is dedicated to the production of children’s books for all ages, including fiction, picture books […]
The Cover Wars: Middle Grade Magic
If you don’t know what the cover wars is, it’s exactly what it sounds like. We use (light?) sabres to battle over the covers. Only not really. Today it’s all […]
Upcoming YA Dystopian Novels
I will admit that this is a bit of a copout, but The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson is looking more and more like sci-fi/fantasy (should’ve looked at Goodreads before I […]
A few thoughts on covers
At UBC today Dr. Vivian Howard of Dalhousie University gave a talk about Atlantic Canada – readers, illustrations, authors, literature – which I found stimulating not only because of her […]
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