Happy July! Wow this year is really flying by. Last month was full of bookish events and it looks like July will be more of the same. Both Alethea and I will be heading to Comic Con next weekend where we are going to get our geek on. If you see us, please say hi. Hopefully we'll remember to bring some bookmarks and buttons for anyone who wants one. And if you're heading to any of the events below, let us know and we'll keep an eye out for you. :)
Jessica Brody at Barnes & Noblesigning 52 Reasons to Hate My Father
Saturday July 07, 2012
3rd Street Promenade
1201 3rd Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310-260-9110 (there is no time listed online, so best to call. also, b&n often does a wristband type thing so you should confirm what the procedure will be for this event.)
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Dark Days Tour at Barnes & Noblewith Aprilynn Pike, Veronica Roth, S.J. Kincaid, Dan Wells
Tuesday July 10, 2012
Huntington Beach (why does B&N not have times on their site?)
Bella Terra
7881 Edinger Ave. #110
Huntington Beach, CA 92647714-897-8781
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By: alethea aka frootjoos,
on 7/2/2012
Blog: Read Now Sleep Later (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: YA, poetry, young adult, book review, Hidden, verse novel, Macmillan, 2011, July2012, HelenFrost, FarrarStrausGiroux, Add a tag
Publication date: 10 May 2011 by Farrar Straus & Giroux
Category: Young Adult Verse Novel
Keywords: Kidnapping, friendship, forgiveness, compassion, camp
Format: Hardcover
Source: Purchased from Vroman's Bookstore
When Wren Abbott and Darra Monson are eight years old, Darra's father steals a minivan. He doesn't know that Wren is hiding in the back. The hours and days that follow change the lives of both girls. Darra is left with a question that only Wren can answer. Wren has questions, too.
Years later, in a chance encounter at camp, the girls face each other for the first time. They can finally learn the truth—that is, if they’re willing to reveal to each other the stories that they’ve hidden for so long. Told from alternating viewpoints, this novel-in-poems reveals the complexities of memory and the strength of a friendship that can overcome pain.
Alethea's Review:
I once had a parent tell me that she did not want her daughter (14 at the time) reading verse novels as they were "too short" and "too easy". I tried to tell her they are just different--that the form of the novel does tend towards brevity, but that extracting meaning from verse is sometimes a more difficult skill for kids to pick up. The parent was adamant, and I felt bad for her child--she'd be missing out on some great stories just because they were told in poetry format, or would at least until she is able to choose her own reading material. I hope that girl gets to read Hidden
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By: alethea aka frootjoos,
on 7/1/2012
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JacketFlap tags: 3 stars, 2012, dystopian, Julie Kagawa, HarlequinTeen, netgalley, martialarts, July2012, TheImmortalRules, dystopia, book review, vampires, zombies, Add a tag
The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden, Book 1) by Julie Kagawa
Publication date: 24 April 2012 by Harlequin Teen
ISBN 10/13: 0373210515 | 9780373210510
Format: Hardcover, ebook
Keywords: Series, Dystopian, Vampires, Zombies
Source: Netgalley
From the jacket copy:
Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of "them." The vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself is attacked--and given the ultimate choice. Die...or become one of the monsters.
Alethea's Review:
I can't tell if it's partially that I'm burned out on vampires, but I did not enjoy reading The Immortal Rules as much as I did the Iron Fey series. Part of me really wanted to like it. I'm a sucker for dystopians after all--few of my friends shed as many tears as I did over Cormac McCarthy's The Road. I love the sting of tears as I read about puny humans forced to be brave, driven by a desire to protect whatever humanity they have left to them. Sadly, Allison Sekemoto, while at times admirable for her determination and strength in the face of disappointments and setbacks that ring all too real, doesn't quite grab me as other heroines have. It was almost as if she was the plot device in her own story--she's just there, and I am just turning the pages.
Is it inventive? Sure. Kagawa cooks up some mythology about vampires and zombies that isn't too transparent; she answers just enough questions as the story progresses to keep you just short of the point where you get so frustrated that you put this book down, and go re-read one of her other, better-paced books. I kept trying to discern thematic meaning from the various rules that Allison has to then choose to obey or disobey according to her fast-fading conscience, the least of which is her lust for human
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Dark Days Tour at Barnes & Noble
^^ I'll be attending this! :D
Yay! I hope I can go but it's so far away. We shall see. I still need to buy Insurgent and that would be the perfect opportunity.