Author: Madeleine L'Engle

#TopTenTuesday: Finished Series to Finish (or Start)

September 8, 2015 / 25 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Top Ten Tuesday
#TopTenTuesday: Finished Series to Finish (or Start)

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is all about finished series that you need to finish…but I’ve discovered that I’m actually pretty darn good at finishing series when I’ve started them! I know, I can’t believe it either, but I think it has to do with my obsession with closure and the fact that I’m very picky about the series I start. Because my TTT is so short this week, I thought I’d add in some finished series I’ve been meaning to read as well! Finished Series I Need to Finish: 1. Patrick Ness’ Chaos Walking series: like, it’s actually embarrassing […]

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Mini-Reviews: Meet the Austins, When the Stars Align & Scarlet

September 7, 2015 / 3 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Mini-Reviews, Review
Mini-Reviews: Meet the Austins, When the Stars Align & Scarlet

Despite my enduring love for Madeleine L’Engle and my obsession with her lesser-known heroine Vicky Austin, for some reason I never quite got to Meet the Austins. Maybe because I knew that it didn’t involve any of the scientific elements that feature in so many of her later novels, maybe because Vicky is only 12 in this novel. I’m grateful that my book club forced me to finally read it! Meet the Austins is a very sweet middle-grade, and a great introduction to the loving, warm Austin family. Chapters are essentially episodes in the Austins’ lives as they bring spoiled orphan […]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I’ve Read The Most Books From

August 11, 2015 / 16 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book List, Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I’ve Read The Most Books From

This week’s TTT is all about the authors you’ve read the most books from. In the interest of not making my list too long, I’m only doing unrequired reading (otherwise, my whole list would be Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, Alice Munro, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, etc – and even though I love those guys, this is a primarily a YA blog!).  1.  2.  3.  4.  5. 1. Diana Peterfreund – 10 books + 8-10 novellas/short stories; Viv Daniels – 1 book + 2 novellas: Unsurprising. She is my fave. If you haven’t read her work, you ABSOLUTELY should. 2.  Kieran Scott – 10; […]

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