Posts Published by Jodie K

Say Hello to Zorro!

I love getting books in the mail. You could shorten that to just, I love getting mail. But I love getting books in the mail especially. Say Hello to Zorro! showed up last week, out…

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Maze Schmaze

Lots of things came to mind when I sat down to write about James Dashner's The Maze Runner. How books can be good, but not great. How books can have some annoying, bad elements to…

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Society Girl

I read about Matched by Ally Condie in Entertainment Weekly of all places. I’m liking their ‘Books’ pages more and more. Coming off The Hunger Games trilogy and the craptastic Fallen, I was craving another…

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Starving for More

Did I tell you that because I haven’t been able to actually finish a book for six months, I went to the bookstore and only bought young adult novels? Yummy, yummy cupcake teen fiction. Holy…

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Suckage

Insatiable by Meg Cabot is the kind of vampire lite schlock that chaps my hide. How the hell can you have a vampire book with no sexual tension at all and no biting, no draining…

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Breaking rules

Sometimes you need to break your own rules. I recently bought a paperback pulp-fiction sci-fi/fantasy book at the supermarket (do we even call them that anymore, supermarkets? Grocery store? Can I just say Cub or…

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The Hunter

I read Julia Leigh’s Disquiet last year and it was so brilliant and haunting that I’ve been desperate to read more of her work. (I have a thing for brilliant and haunting.) In my scouring…

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Crestfallen

Disclaimer: I went to college with Adam Rapp for two years I think, might have only been one. We knew each other in the way that you know your boyfriend’s friends. He’s a great guy…

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A Common Pornography

I know nothing of Kevin Sampsell. I’d never heard of him or his publishing house – Future Tense Publishing – before an online publicist put me in touch with him. So I came into A…

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