Posts Tagged ‘Discussion’
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Thoughts On: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
14January 25, 2013 by Heidi
Title: A Monster Calls [Amazon|Goodreads] Author: Patrick Ness [Website|Twitter|Facebook] Illustrator: Jim Kay Standing: Stand alone. Genre: Middle Grade, Horror Published: September 27th, 2011 by Walker Books …
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Belated Bests: My Reading Life in 2012
39January 9, 2013 by Heidi
Hi friends! You did get to see me talk about some of my favorite books from 2012 over at Smugglivus …
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Everyone Wants to be Hermione
33November 24, 2012 by Heidi
Like many avid Goodreads users, I have a Challenge Question that I use when people are requesting my friendship. This …
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Death Obsessed: My favorite incarnations.
25November 17, 2012 by Heidi
Fall is a season of harvest, but it is also the herald of endings. For me, the darkening of days, …
keep readingCategory Adult, Discussion, Graphic Novel, Miscellany, TV and Movies, Young Adult | Tags: adult, anthropomorphism, death, Discussion, fantasy, Graphic Novel, multicultural, TV and Movies, young adult
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Ranty Pants: Resolution (or lack thereof).
29September 15, 2012 by Heidi
So there I was…innocently reading a book and there’s all this build up and then this climax but then…wait. No! …
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I can’t take the angst!
46May 22, 2012 by Heidi
Lately, every time I pick up a YA book I get about 20-30 pages and then I bail. I just …
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Thoughts on Young Adult: The Movie
12April 14, 2012 by Heidi
Last night I decided to take an evening off reading and watch my current Netflix movies. One of them was …
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Dehumanization: Why people dying can be funny, and animals dying never is.
6April 7, 2012 by Heidi
Not too long ago, the amazing Amy of Tripping Over Books had a post about her “pet” peeve, in which …
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Birth Control: Dystopias on Reproductive Rights
10March 3, 2012 by Heidi
Today I’d like to talk about a trend within a trend that I keep bumping into (no pun intended…okay, maybe …
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Team Dynamics: How much does popular opinion affect a writer’s choices?
8February 15, 2012 by Heidi
Last night while watching Monday’s episode of How I Met Your Mother, the boyfriend and I got into a discussion …
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