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Recap: The best book blogging event ever, or the Ontario Book Bloggers Meet-Up 2012!

November 5, 2012 / 6 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Blogging Life, Book Events, Personal
Recap: The best book blogging event ever, or the Ontario Book Bloggers Meet-Up 2012!

What can I say that that title doesn’t say for itself? This was hands-down the most fun event ever for a newbie book blogger. I’ve never experienced that much excitement and squealing about books. For me, the best part of the Ontario Blog Squad’s 2nd Annual Blogger Meet-Up was getting to put faces to the names of bloggers that I’ve been following for years. Yes, meeting the authors and the publishers was great, but getting to actually talk, IN PERSON with people who love YA and have read the same YAs as me? I CAN’T. EVEN. The raffle table with […]

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Books for trade or giveaway at the Ontario Book Bloggers Meet-Up!

November 1, 2012 / 1 Comment / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Events
Books for trade or giveaway at the Ontario Book Bloggers Meet-Up!

Quick post today – I have a bunch of books that I’m happy to give away or swap at the Ontario Book Bloggers Meet-Up this weekend. Please let me know in the comments or on Twitter if you would like any of these. I’ll bring a selection to the event, but I can’t bring them all, or I’ll probably lose my arms on the way there. My Name is Number 4 by Ting-Xing Ye Snow by Orhan Pamuk Self by Yann Martel Beneath a Meth Moon ARC by Jacqueline Woodson The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson Gifted by Nikita Lalwani Waiting […]

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Giveaway & Event: Burn for Burn by Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian!

October 1, 2012 / 13 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Blogging Life, Book Events
Giveaway & Event: Burn for Burn by Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian!

OK, this is a super-long post – sorry! I just got excited! On Thursday, I got to meet Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian, authors of Burn for Burn. They made their first Canadian appearance at Indigo-Yorkdale here in Toronto. In celebration, I’m hosting a giveaway – check out my recap of the event and the giveaway below the cut. Me being me, the first thing I noticed was their outfits. Jenny was wearing an adorable red-and-white striped dress, and she had bright red lipstick on and her tour nails. Siobhan was wearing a black pencil skirt, a preppy-cool purple gingham […]

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Dear blog…

September 27, 2012 / 0 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Blogging Life, Personal

…I apologize for ignoring you. I have been very busy at my day job, making money so that I can buy books to read and review for you. I have also been very busy learning many copy-editing skills so that I can maybe, possibly get a job in publishing where I can spend lots of time reading more books, and then posting on you. I have been even more busy trying to figure out ways to save money for my upcoming wedding and homeownership so that I can have a house with bookshelves to fill with books that I’ve reviewed. In […]

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