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Top Ten Tuesday #12: Best Sequels

September 24, 2013 / 11 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Top Ten Tuesday, Uncategorized
Top Ten Tuesday #12: Best Sequels

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 topic was suggested by me awhile back! To me, a really good sequel should take the themes and characters from the first book and advance them so much that you’re sort of knocked off your seats.  In no particular order: Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins – I can’t think of a better companion to Anna and the French Kiss – not only […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: Perfect Lies by Kiersten White

September 18, 2013 / 15 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: Perfect Lies by Kiersten White

Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that book bloggers are eagerly anticipating. Perfect Lies (Book 2 in the Mind Games series!)Author: Kiersten White (website | twitter) Publisher: HarperTeenExpected publication date: February 18th 2014 Annie and Fia are ready to fight back. The sisters have been manipulated and controlled by the Keane Foundation for years, trapped in a never ending battle for survival. Now they have found allies who can help them truly escape. After faking her own death, Annie has joined a group that is plotting to destroy the Foundation. And Fia […]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Fall 2013 To Be Read List!

September 16, 2013 / 21 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Top Ten Tuesday, Uncategorized
Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Fall 2013 To Be Read List!

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. SO many awesome books on my list this fall! In no particular order… Upcoming Releases:  Just One Year by Gayle Forman. Release date: Oct 10 – My most anticipated book of the year. I haven’t had that much time to re-read this year, but I’ve made time for Just One Day because it affected me THAT deeply. I need the conclusion NOW.  Across a Star-Swept Sea by Diana […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson

September 4, 2013 / 16 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson

Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that book bloggers are eagerly anticipating. Since You’ve Been Gone Author: Morgan Matson (website | twitter) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Expected publication date: May 13th 2014  Goodreads synopsis: The Pre-Sloane Emily didn’t go to parties, she barely talked to guys, she didn’t do anything crazy. Enter Sloane, social tornado and the best kind of best friend—the one who yanks you out of your shell. But right before what should have been an epic summer, Sloane just… disappears. No note. No calls. No texts. No Sloane. There’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 #11: Most Memorable Secondary Characters

August 27, 2013 / 15 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Top Ten Tuesday, Uncategorized
Top Ten Tuesday #11: Most Memorable Secondary Characters

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 we’re chatting about kick-arse secondary characters, who always make a book better in my opinion.  1. Bridget from the Jessica Darling series: She goes from seeming like a total bimbo to one of the smartest and sweetest people Jessica knows, proving that Notso Darling is not so right about people sometimes. Also, no spoilers, but her eventual boyfriend is also one of the most awesome people […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: Being Sloane Jacobs by Lauren Morrill

August 21, 2013 / 4 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: Being Sloane Jacobs by Lauren Morrill

Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that book bloggers are eagerly anticipating. Being Sloane Jacobs Author: Lauren Morrill (website | twitter) Publisher: Delacorte Expected publication date: January 7, 2014 Goodreads synopsis: Meet Sloane Emily Jacobs: a seriously stressed-out figure-skater from Washington, D.C., who choked during junior nationals and isn’t sure she’s ready for a comeback. What she does know is that she’d give anything to escape the mass of misery that is her life. Now meet Sloane Devon Jacobs, a spunky ice hockey player from Philly who’s been suspended from her team […]

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Top Ten Tuesday #10: Things That Make Your Life As A Book Blogger Easier

August 20, 2013 / 8 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Top Ten Tuesday, Uncategorized
Top Ten Tuesday #10: Things That Make Your Life As A Book Blogger Easier

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. Wow, has it ever been a long time since I did one of these! This week, I’m discussing the tools/resources/people that make blogging easier for me. In descending order… 10. Rafflecopter They just make it so easy to promote and giveaway books! The “reuse your last giveaway” feature is phenomenal, and I love that it tracks and can export the entries so that I can look at stats […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: Ashes to Ashes by Melissa Walker

July 31, 2013 / 5 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: Ashes to Ashes by Melissa Walker

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that book bloggers are eagerly anticipating. I’m back! And a little late with this week’s WoW pick, but it’s by one of my favourite authors, so yay! Ashes to Ashes Author: Melissa C. Walker  Publisher: Katherine Tegen BooksExpected publication date: December 23, 2013 If I Stay meets the movie Ghost in this first book in a teen duology about a teenage-girl-turned-ghost who must cling to the echoes of her former life to save the people she left behind. Ashes to Ashes is author Melissa Walker’s sweeping, […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando

June 12, 2013 / 10 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that book bloggers are eagerly anticipating. This week’s can’t-wait-to-read pick comes to you courtesy of one of my book besties, the wonderful Sarah O’Reilly: Roomies Authors: Sara Zarr & Tara Altebrando Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Expected publication date: December 24th 2013   It’s time to meet your new roomie. When East Coast native Elizabeth receives her freshman-year roommate assignment, she shoots off an e-mail to coordinate the basics: television, microwave, mini-fridge. That first note to San Franciscan Lauren sparks a series of e-mails that alters […]

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