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…
Jodie’s Top Picks of 2010
I thought that I’d have a hard time coming up with five good books this year. 2010 was full crap for me, reading-wise. But looking back, it was nice to see that I didn’t hate…
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…
Just call me angel of the boring
Fallen by Lauren Kate was my other cupcake pick at the bookstore this last time around. I had abandoned so many “adult” books that I made a conscious decision to only pick up Young Adult…
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…
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…
Twilight The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1
Stephenie Meyer is going to become the Madonna of authors if she doesn’t watch it. The Twilight Saga books made her a millionaire. The movies are making a mint and giving millions of women, young…
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…
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…
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…