Some of you may know that it takes a lot to get teenagers to read. That’s why paranormal teen romances are so popular. They take ordinary teens out of this world and make fantastical things happen to them. Authors tend to add the “shock factor” to their books to keep teens hooked and reading, or [...]
Forgive me, readers, for I have neglected you. It’s been six days since my last blog, and, well, I do have some really good excuses to throw at you. In an ideal world, I would have infinite amounts of time to where I could do every single thing I want all in one day, but, [...]
Once again that time has come, the time where we say goodbye to another year and hello to one full of hope and promise. Back in the day, the turning of a new year used to be a huge deal to me. My friends and I would always reflect on all the fun stuff that [...]
I’m not really one to make Christmas lists, as how I’m past the age of 12, and it’s usually easier to just let my husband be creative and get me what he wants. But this year I’m going to make a list – a book list, that is – to let everyone know what books [...]
Or at least that’s what I like to tell myself every time I read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Because of Cedric Diggory. Of course when I read the book eleven years ago, Robert Pattinson wasn’t even a blip on my boy radar. The future sparkly vampire was not the reason why I [...]
Zombies have been appearing in popular culture for almost 200 years, ever since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Because if you think about it, Frankenstein’s monster was a total zombie, brought back to life and left to feed on Frankenstein’s brains. Okay, well maybe it wasn’t quite like that. But Shelley was on to something when she [...]
Everyone’s got a guilty pleasure. Even if you think you don’t, I guarantee that you do, hidden somewhere in there amongst all the things you consider to be okay to like. The official Wikipedia definition of a guilty pleasure is “something one enjoys and considers pleasurable despite feeling guilt for enjoying it. The “guilt” involved is sometimes [...]
This very question was posed to me today by a co-worker of mine, and while at the time I was surprised that she didn’t know, I also realized that a lot of people probably don’t know that books are still being banned in schools and libraries. Because banning a book in the 21st century seems [...]
Back in the day, book covers were pretty boring. In olden times, sometimes all you saw was title on the book’s spine. In the 50s, you saw very old-timey cover illustrations that just looked kinda weird. And then in the 1980s, lots of young adult books featured pictures of real people on their covers – [...]
Since I had the day off today – and a couple hours of ME time – I decided to swing by my local closing Borders to a) see how much percentage I’d be getting off books, and b) see if there was even anything left. Well, there was still a lot left – probably due [...]
