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Ten Buzz Books for the Pop Culture Junkie in Your Life | Top Ten Tuesday | Mostly YA Lit 2016 Holida..

Ten Buzz Books for the Pop Culture Junkie in Your Life | Top Ten Tuesday | Mostly YA Lit 2016 Holiday Gift Guide, Part 1

Lately, I’ve become a huge fan buzz books, those pop culture junkie books like celebrity memoirs that sit on your coffee table and everyone’s heard about. I don’t talk about it a lot, but I love diving into a little pop culture non-fiction between intense YA reads. They go down like butter, often making me laugh, cry, and cheer while I’m on the subway going to and from work. I’m still reeling from the Gilmore Girls revival (did you guys watch it? DM me with thoughts @mostlyyalit!), which was a pop culture phenomenon as well as dropping names of everything and […]

Conversations with Katniss: Early Review: Texts From Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg

November 3, 2014 / 6 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Conversations with Katniss: Early Review: Texts From Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg

Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters Author: Mallory Ortberg (website | twitter) Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Source/Format: ARC provided by Raincoast Books in exchange for an honest review (thank you!) Expected publication date: November 4th 2014 (tomorrow!) My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars.  Buy it: Chapters/Indigo | Amazon.ca | Indiebound | Barnes & Noble | Amazon.com Hilariously imagined text conversations—the passive aggressive, the clever, and the strange—from classic and modern literary figures, from Scarlett O’Hara to Jessica Wakefield. Mallory Ortberg, the co-creator of the cult-favorite website The Toast, presents this whimsical collection of […]