Tag: madeleine l’engle

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 #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 #3: Favourite Romances!

February 12, 2013 / 14 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Top Ten Tuesday, Uncategorized
Top Ten Tuesday #3: Favourite Romances!

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 focus is on our favourite romances – you guys know I’m a huge contemp/romance fan, so here’s my list of perfect romances for you to read before Valentine’s Day! In no particular order… 1. Anna & Etienne from Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins – followed closely by Lola & the Boy Next Door, but I couldn’t put both! 2. Hazel & Augustus from […]

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