May 2013
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A Workout For Book Nerds
cuddlebuggery:
epicreads:
All you need for this workout is a stack of hardcovers and some yarn or rope to tie them together!
Workout #1: The Book Curl
Workout #2: The Book Up
Workout #3: The Brunch (Book Crunch) - Just like brunch this can be done alone or with a friend!
Cool Down
Love this!
Resourceful much?
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TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE: YA AUTHOR EDITION
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To celebrate the release of Jacqueline Green’s TRUTH OR DARE (out now!), many YA authors have come together to share two truths and a lie about themselves for you readers to guess!
Next up, we have Aaron Hartzler, author of YA memoir, RAPTURE PRACTICE.
(The lie is revealed in the bottom right hand corner!)
Another round of 2 Truths & 1 Lie. Which do you think is...
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Truth or Dare: New Trailer!
lauren-oliver:
This is honestly one of the best book trailers I’ve ever seen, which is great because I LOVE this book! Truth or Dare, by Jacqueline Green, is a tense exciting story with some genuine scares! The trailer made me excited for it all over again!
Also… check out the EXCLUSIVE sneak peek!
http://shelf-life.ew.com/2013/05/03/truth-or-dare-jacqueline-green-exclusive/
Reason for an...
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April 2013
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Random Impressive Tuesday Thing #4: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. an image that somehow becomes lodged deep in your brain—maybe washed there by a dream, or smuggled inside a book, or planted during a casual conversation—which then grows into a wild and impractical vision that keeps scrambling back and forth in your head like a dog stuck in a car that’s about...
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Teen Girl Movies by Kirsten Smith [Los Angeles... →
Alternative Title 1: In Which Trinkets Author Kirsten Smith Makes the Claim: “Movies about teenage girls are better than movies about other people.”
Alternative Title 2: The Shakespearean John Hughes and a True Love Story: How Kirsten Smith Came to Write a YA Novel
Kirsten All-Time Favorite Teen Girl Movies -
Valley Girl (1983)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Just One of the Guys...
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“…and they talked too, of their futures, as if they could shape the glittering...”
– Libba Bray, The Diviners (via relatedtobooks)
Them’s goosebump-inducing words.
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WatchWARNING: Before you watch this trailer please prepare yourself to be creeped, majorly so.
Also, I Hunt Killers is out in paperback!
You’re unfamiliar? Well, the matrix below* explains it better than we ever could.
*Credit goes to The Readventurer.
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10 YA Book + Shoe Pairings
epicreads:
Which of these pairings is your favorite? VIEW THEM ALL HERE.
View all 10 pairings on Epic Reads!
Love them all. (Of course, we’re a little partial to those moon boots.)
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Julia Gazdag Taps Rob Gordon from High Fidelity as... →
Inspired by the concept of building a relationship through letters - or, in some instances, over these here interwebs - Julia Gazdag dreamt up her ideal fictional exchange and the result…well, it’s what #happylookslike.
It begins like this…
Me: Hey Rob. Rob: Hey Julia. Me: How’s your record collection? Rob: What? Me: I mean, how are you? Rob: You know the Beatles’ song Julia...
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“Let’s talk about that first moment you realized that there’s one single solitary...”
– Artsy Fartsy: Oblivious Optimists & Wet Laundry: An Interview with Trinkets Author Kirsten Smith (Nasty Gal Blog)
Yeah, “euphoria” pretty much sums it up.
March 2013
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WatchTruth or dare? Dare? Good. Your dare, should you choose to accept it, is to watch Aaron Hartzler’s 10 Questions in 1 Minute 2 Minutes and 20 Seconds and NOT smile the biggest smile. (It’s impossible.)
Keywords: Amy Grant Rihanna vs. Taylor Swift Self doubt Time wasting Admirable fictional characters Justin Bieber with his shirt on
