The Meg Cabot Haters Club

Okay so it’s not a real club.  But there sure are a lot of things to hate about Meg Cabot, she’s smart, funny, super good-looking, writes amazing books and makes hilarious videos like the one she just posted about her new book Abandon (comes out in April, place hold HERE!!) Okay…so maybe we don’t hate her.  Maybe we’re [...]

The Bride’s Farewell

On her wedding day Pell Ridley woke up, kissed her sisters goodbye and left her whole life behind.  On her favorite horse Jack and with her stowaway brother Bean, she makes her way to the market to find work as a horse trainer and a new life.  What she finds instead are wandering gypsies, dishonest men and an [...]

Team Unicorn or Team Zombie? Wait, what?

I don’t know what to make of this. http://shelf-life.ew.com/2010/02/04/zombies-and-unicorns-natural-enemies/ Zombies vs. Unicorns is a short story collection coming out this fall that has famous YA authors campaigning for supreme dominance of either zombies or unicorns. Huh? The idea started as blog posts between YA authors Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier over which is better, zombies or [...]

Do you oil your war machines…or do you feed them?

I wasn’t a fan of book trailers until I saw this one.  Honestly, it’s Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies and Peeps, so I would have read this book, good trailer or not.  But since the trailer was so fantastic I couldn’t wait.  After finishing Leviathan this weekend, the book totally lives up to the trailer. [...]