young adult

Weekly Geeks #12: The Answers

by Kim on July 25, 2008 · 2 comments

I am so excited to have questions to answer! I got quite a few comments on my Weekly Geeks #12 post from earlier this week. All of the questions related to Stardust are in a separate post from yesterday, found here. It’s a longer review of the book, more like a normal review, since Stardust [...]

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Weekly Geeks #12

by Kim on July 22, 2008 · 8 comments

This weeks Weekly Geek challenge (courtesy of Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf) is to get caught up on book reviews with help from other bloggers. Here are the instructions from Dewy: 1. In your blog, list any books you’ve read but haven’t reviewed yet. If you’re all caught up on reviews, maybe [...]

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Harry Potter Reign Ends?

by Kim on May 14, 2008 · 3 comments

After 10-years at the top of various best-sellers lists, Harry Potter has finally been knocked off. While this story seems newsworthy in that it’s almost like the end of an era, I also think it’s interesting because of the way the Harry Potter phenomenon changed the way The New York Times did their best-sellers lists. [...]

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Weekly Geeks: Challenge #3

by Kim on May 13, 2008 · 4 comments

I got on the boat with the Weekly Geek challenge a little late, but Weekly Geeks is basically a community building, blogging based challenge organized by Dewey on her blog The Hidden Side of a Leaf. Each Saturday, a new weekly challenge is posted, and then anyone who participates will get their blog linked with [...]

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Steampunk and His Dark Materials

by Kim on May 11, 2008 · 1 comment

In my enthusiasm at starting a bookish blog, I began by bookmarking a whole bunch of other blogs in hopes that they would give me some ideas and things to think about adding to mine. What a great idea, because I already have topic! Jacket Copy, the LA Times Book News and Information Blog, just [...]

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