by Rebecca | Oct 16, 2013 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, ARCs, audrey and alice, authors, books, contests and giveaways, debutanting, Goodreads, I talk about food too much, IRL, middle grade, Uncategorized, What I'm Reading Right Now, what's up wednesday
What’s Up Wednesday is a weekly meme that helps readers and writers touch base with blog friends. If you’d like to join in, you can find the link widget on Jaime’s and Erin’s blog posts. I love this idea because it gives a structured,...
by Rebecca | Oct 10, 2013 | authors, Bookanistas, books, characters, middle grade, mixing metaphors like I'm making muffins, this is how we read it, Uncategorized
It’s time for another Bookanista recommendation: Tim Federle’s hilarious and heartfelt Better Nate Than Ever.Here’s the summary from Goodreads: Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, he’s wanted to star in a Broadway show. (Heck, he’d...
by Rebecca | Sep 2, 2013 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, debutanting, middle grade, onefour kidlit, What I'm Reading Right Now, YA book club
Happy Labor Day! I’m back from a trip to the Midwest and taking the day *off* before more revising starts tomorrow. But in the meantime, I have two posts elsewhere online:A OneFour Kid Lit interview with YA author (and agentmate) Sara Polsky about her debut,...
by Rebecca | Aug 29, 2013 | Bookanistas, books, chose kindness, middle grade, watch out I'm getting all verklempt, What I'm Reading Right Now
It’s time for another Bookanista recommendation: R. J. Palacio’s Wonder.Here’s the summary from Goodreads: August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school—until now. He’s about to...
by Rebecca | Jul 15, 2013 | books, covers, historical fiction, middle grade, MMGM, this is how we read it
One of my favorite reads of 2011 was Sheila O’Connor’s Sparrow Road. A midwest setting, a creepy mansion/artist’s colony, and mysteries–what more could you want? (Not to mention beautiful prose and compelling characters.) So I was very excited...
by Rebecca | Jun 10, 2013 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, books, debutanting, historical fiction, middle grade, MMGM, onefour kidlit, this is how we read it, What I'm Reading Right Now
One of the many fun things about being part of OneFour KidLit is getting to interview debut 2013 authors about their great new books. Tomorrow, my interview with Laura Golden, author of Every Day After, will be up on the OneFour blog. But I couldn’t wait until...
