April 2011
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Kristen Bell petitions for the part of Johanna... →
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The Sky Is Everywhere
The Sky Is Everywhere
{The Sky Is Everywhere.* Jandy Nelson. 2010}
Scenario: Lennie, growing up in hippie Northern California, raised by her eccentric grandma, has always been pretty content to remain in big sister Bailey’s shadow. Then Bailey dies, and Lennie’s left to pick up the pieces of her old life, creating one bigger than the sum of its parts.
Pros:
Uncle Big, the incurable romantic...
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the art of the bookplate →
Beautiful.
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on Juno girls and The Sky Is Everywhere
So, I’ll get to talking about The Sky Is Everywhere one of these days, but I want to go ahead and say I didn’t love it, and I think I might know part of the reason why (besides a recent surfeit in grieving girl books, of course).
The problem is, I really liked Before I Fall, which I finished just before. It seemed like Lauren Oliver was doing a really cool, brave thing in picking a...
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“As I reach my hands out and press my fingers into the loamy soil, I start...”
– The Sky Is Everywhere, Jandy Nelson — review forthcoming :)
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Before I Fall
{Before I Fall. Lauren Oliver. 2010.}
So, let’s try this again.
Scenario: Sam is a popular senior at Thomas Jefferson High, enjoying her favorite day of the year, Cupid Day, when she dies. She wakes up the next morning, and lives the day all over.
Pros:
Kent. He and Sam made it onto last year’s Most Swoonworthy YA Couples of All Time comments over at Forever YA, and he reminds me...
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Hunger Games casting updates
[because this is a YA film adaptation appreciation blog, apparently.]
Rue and Thresh (seeing the girl cast as Rue really brings home her age and makes me a bit weepy. Those will be difficult scenes to watch.)
Effie (I can dig it.)
Glimmer (Honestly, I hardly even remember this character. WHAT ABOUT HAYMITCH? WHAT ABOUT PRIM?!)
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“Such is the primary lesson of today’s exploding subgenre of dystopian young...”
– Gwenda Bond on dystopian YA over at tor.com
[and check out the glog I made for Ref as a pathfinder for YA dystopia here]
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Perks of Being a Wallflower casting updates →
Is 1991 old enough to feel retro to today’s teens? I suppose most of them weren’t born then(!). Anyway, I’m excited about Emma Watson, Mae Whitman (Parenthood and Arrested Development, whatwhat!), and Paul Rudd. I might have to reread Perks, though, since I last read it roughly a decade ago…
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Amy & Roger's Infinite/Epic...
{Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour. Morgan Matson. May, 2010.}
I find I’m unexpectedly indecisive about how to start this new blog, what note to strike, even though I’ve been blogging what I read pretty consistently throughout 2011 and, more randomly, beyond. So I’ll borrow from the book shelves of doom mini-format, I guess, until I get off to a good start on my own here.
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