Cybils Award Winners – Exciting!

The Cybils are a book award given by children’s and young adult book bloggers.  The Cybils have only two criteria: literary merit and kid appeal.  The winners and finalists as they were announced this morning on the Cybils blog.
I’m seriously so excited!  With Valentines day today, these are the books to give your love to [...]

New York Times Bestsellers – February 14th

The New York Times Bestseller List
February 14, 2010
Hardcover Fiction

WORST CASE, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge.  A New York detective raising 10 children alone investigates a string of kidnappings and killings of teenagers by a villain with unusual motives.
THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi.
FLIRT, by [...]

Gabriel’s Story by David Anthony Durham

Gabriel’s Story by David Anthony Durham is one of those books that I  saw mentioned somewhere (but for the life of me I can’t figure out where), I immediately put on hold at the library, and when I brought it home, everything else I was reading got put down and it cut in line from [...]

When I’m Not Reading . . .

. . . I often hear how much my husband looks a lot like Apolo Anton Ohno.

Hunger Game Fans! Check Out the Book Cover & Title for Book Three!

Announced today from Scholastic:

The third and final book in the Hunger Games trilogy is Mockingjay.  To tell you the truth, I don’t think the name appeals to me in the same way Hunger Games and Catching Fire does but frankly, I don’t care.  August 24th can’t get here fast enough.
Want to know what will be [...]