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Check Out My BEA Guest Blog Feature!

May 31, 2011 Children's Books, Thoughts, YA Books , , , , ,

Other BEA posts: BEA 2009, BEA 2011 Pt. 1, BEA: The Books!

I mentioned that last Tuesday I attended the Children’s Book Council event “Children’s Author Speed Dating” at BookExpo America. And I’ve guest blogged about the event over at author Tara Lazar’s blog. I’m really excited about this, not just because it’s my first guest blogger post. I’ve been following Tara’s road to publication for a couple of years now, and I can’t wait for her book MONSTORE (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster) to hit shelves in summer 2013. I hope to line up for one of her events at BEA pretty soon.

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BEA: The Books!

May 27, 2011 Children's Books, Teaching, Thoughts, YA Books , , , , ,

Other BEA posts: BEA 2009, BEA 2011 Pt. 1.

Let’s just take a moment to breathe this in, shall we?

63 books. Sixty-three glorious books. In TWO DAYS.

And yet the more I read about BEA, the more I feel I need to do differently next year. People seem to have the science of BEA-going nailed down to precise Swiss-inspired movements, but I stumble around from booth to booth gawking at beloved authors and grabbing bags. And donuts. And posing with Elephant and Piggie.

Don’t get me wrong, I brought my “A” game this week. But I’ve only been to BEA once before, and that was 2 years ago. I’m out of practice, and I haven’t perfected my technique. Tickets to great signings were not obtained, video cameras were forgotten at home, and I didn’t believe in the sweet relief of bringing an empty suitcase until Day 2.

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Clockwork Angel and City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

May 16, 2011 YA Books , ,

I finished the audio book of City of Fallen Angels, the 4th book in The Mortal Instruments series, 3 weeks after I posted about it’s release. That’s because I was still finishing up the first book in Cassandra Clare’s new series The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Angel. And I’m really glad I finished them in that order. I was actually working on Clockwork Angel and City of Glass (the 3rd Mortal Instruments book) at the same time. It got a little confusing keeping everything straight at times, but since there are some crossover references I’m glad to say I have now finished all of Ms. Clare’s books. And I love them.
Clockwork Angel takes place in Victorian London, about a decade after the much talked about peace treaties between Shadowhunters and Downworlders in The Mortal Instruments series. This story focuses on Tessa Gray, an orphan girl lured from New York to London to live with her ne’er-do-well brother after the death of her aunt. When she arrives in London, however, she is captured and tortured by the Dark Sisters, who reveal to her that she is a shapeshifter (an “Eidolon”). They answer to The Magister, a mysterious figure who apparently wants to marry her.

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The Mortal Instruments

April 5, 2011 YA Books ,

Today is a hugely exciting day in the world of YA lit, because Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments #4, City of Fallen Angels, is finally released after a 2-year wait. I am halfway through #3, City of Glass, but I wanted to celebrate the latest book’s release. So, instead of waiting to catch up entirely with the series (which I have just finally started reading this year), I thought I’d talk about the first two books, City of Bones and City of Ashes.

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Katniss Is Cast!

March 21, 2011 Movies and TV, YA Books , ,

I know I’m the last person on the internet to talk about the casting of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, but I was in Amish country.

So.

Jennifer Lawrence will be Katniss in the upcoming Hunger Games movie! And it has a release date: March 23, 2012. Just a year to wait. A year from this Wednesday. I can do that.

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