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Early Review: The Here and Now by Ann Brashares

March 31, 2014 / 8 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Early Review: The Here and Now by Ann Brashares

The Here and Now Author: Ann Brashares (twitter | website) Publisher: Delacorte Press Format/Source: eARC from publisher on Netgalley Expected publication date: April 8, 2014 (tomorrow!) My rating: 2 out of 5 stars My synopsis:  Prenna James is a teenager from a terrible, disease-ridden future who has come to 2010 with a group of other refugees. Prenna’s group has a ton of rules, the biggest being that they shouldn’t be changing very much in this time, and that they can never be intimate with any “time natives” – that is, people from 2010. But Prenna is having trouble with that, because she’s […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: The Here and Now by Ann Brashares

August 28, 2013 / 8 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: The Here and Now by Ann Brashares

The Here and Now Author: Ann Brashares (website | twitter) Publisher: Delacorte Press Expected publication date: April 8th 2014 Goodreads synopsis: Follow the rules. Remember what happened. Never fall in love. Thrilling, exhilarating, haunting, and heartbreaking, The Here and Now is a twenty-first-century take on an impossible romance. Ann Brashares’ first novel for teens since The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is about a girl from the future who might be able to save the world . . . if she lets go of the one thing she’s found to hold on to. Meet seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York […]

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Top Ten Tuesday #4: Top Ten Favorite Characters In the Contemporary (YA/MG/Adult) Genre

February 19, 2013 / 8 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Top Ten Tuesday, Uncategorized
Top Ten Tuesday #4: Top Ten Favorite Characters In the Contemporary (YA/MG/Adult) Genre

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish to highlight a top ten list related to book blogging, and to get to know fellow book bloggers. This week’s theme is favourite characters in X genre. Guys, I tried not to choose all contemps, but I just couldn’t. They’re not all YAs, though! In no particular order…(I’ve taken a lot of images from movies, because I feel like I need faces!) 1. Ginny Weasley from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling – still my fave character from HP. She’s so strong and sassy and […]

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Top Ten Tuesday #2: My Top Ten Favorite Contemporary YA Authors

October 16, 2012 / 12 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Top Ten Tuesday, Uncategorized
Top Ten Tuesday #2: My Top Ten Favorite Contemporary YA Authors

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish to highlight a top ten list related to book blogging, and to get to know fellow book bloggers. October 16: Top Ten Favorite Authors In X Genre (Ex- Top Ten Favorite Science Fiction Authors, Top Ten Fave Contemporary YA authors) Contemporary YA rarely gets the spotlight that it deserves beside all of the dystopian, sci-fi, fantasy and paranormal stuff that’s out there right now. Since this blog is mainly contemporary, I thought I’d assist you by giving a list of my personal favorite contemporary YA authors. […]

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