Donation of the day. 27 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm

Today, I'm donating* my copy of Paul Griffin's Burning Blue: Burning Blue is a one-sitting book: it’s tight, it’s tense, and it’s intellectually as well as emotionally compelling. Jay’s voice echoes ...

The 2013 Inky shortlists... 27 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm

...have been announced! The Gold Medal (for Australian books) list is: Girl Defective – Simmone Howell My Life as an Alphabet – Barry Jonsberg Cry Blue Murder – Kim Kane and Marion Roberts ( Li.....

Trailer: Divergent. 27 Aug 2013 | 06:15 pm

Yesterday @KirkusReviews... 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm

...I wrote about Sarah Beth Durst's Conjured, which OH MY GOD WAS SO AWESOME I ALMOST DIED: Occasionally, I read a book that I love so much that I don't even want to evangelize about it. I love it SO...

Donation of the day. 26 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm

Today, I'm donating* my copy of Sarah Zettel's Dust Girl: I loved everything on the inside of Dust Girl. It’s a great read, full stop. It’s not ultra deep by any means, but it’s thrilling, thoughtful...

Crown of Midnight: Throne of Glass, #2 -- Sarah J. Maas 26 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm

How much more do I love this artwork more than I love the cover of the first book? SO MUCH MORE. Celaena looks appropriately otherworldly and scary and whatnot, rather than that Randomly CW-Looking Gi...

Kindle Daily Deal: that James Frey alien book. 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm

Yes, I am Number Four is $2.99 today. I'm vaguely tempted to buy it, but only because it's a book I feel I should read—due to the brouhaha that briefly surrounded Frey's fiction factory and because i...

Donation of the day. 24 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm

I noticed earlier this week that we have no John Green books in the collection. Which seems like a slight oversight. So, today, I'm donating* my copy of The Fault in Our Stars: You know what got me ...

Kindle Daily Deal: Melissa Marr. 23 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm

Melissa Marr's Faery Tales & Nightmares is $1.99 today. Which reminds me that I haven't read it yet. I know that I have it around here somewhere... ...maybe when the paint dries on my NEW BOOKSHELV...

Cori McCarthy's Top Seven Traumatizing (In a Good Way) Reads. 23 Aug 2013 | 06:24 pm

Cori McCarthy's Color of Rain is not a book I'd hand to someone who is concerned that YA fiction has become too dark. It deals, after all, with human trafficking, with sex work, with emotional and phy...