Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Feb 10, 2012, 1:10 am
Best Authors You Aren't Reading is an IBWB feature. In it I discuss authors who I don't perceive as being popular, but whom I truly love. I cannot possibly cover John Peel's entire bibliography. For one thing, I haven't read everything he's written! But there's a good chance if you read a TV...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Feb 9, 2012, 1:45 pm
By Adam Rex Available now from Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins) Review Copy I loved Adam Rex's first foray into middle grade books, the award-winning THE TRUE MEANING OF SMEKDAY. COLD CEREAL, unlike SMEKDAY, doesn't begin with an alien invasion and thus takes a bit longer to get off t...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Feb 8, 2012, 1:15 pm
By Harlan Coben Available now from Putnam (Penguin) Review copy Mickey Bolitar has traveled the world with his parents. His experiences ensured that he's more tough and capable than your average fifteen-year-old. Unfortunately, Mickey's dad died and his mother is in rehab, leavi...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Feb 6, 2012, 12:00 pm
I'm not going to pretend that I'm the first book blogger to have a "Movie Monday." It's not the world's most creative name, after all. But I enjoy movies and thought it might be fun to try this out for awhile. Drive, now available in DVD and Blu-Ray, was one of my favorite movies of 2011. I didn'...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Feb 5, 2012, 3:00 pm
In My Mailbox is a meme hosted by Kristi of The Story Siren. Bloggers share books they've received for review, bought, won it contests, etc. This week I took a trip down to the used bookstore and bought myself some clearance books. I bought SHADOW'S EDGE, the second in the Night Angel trilogy...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Feb 4, 2012, 11:30 am
Normally I love Flavorwire's lists. But the recent 10 Great Science Fiction Books for Girls by Emily Temple falls down on the job. I'll start with the title. Lots of gender imbalance issues have been noted among readers. More male science fiction readers; more young female readers for insta...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Feb 4, 2012, 9:30 am
You've probably already seen this video, but I couldn't resist posting it.  Hats off to crazedadman.
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Feb 3, 2012, 5:00 pm
I'll admit it: I wasn't all that excited when I first saw the promo material about China Glaze's Capitol Colours collection, made in conjunction with Lionsgate for the release of the Hunger Games movie.  China Glaze has never been my favorite polish brand and most of the colors looked like duds to ...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Feb 3, 2012, 1:15 am
By Shaun Morey Available now from AmazonEncore Review copy Carl Hiaasen is one of my favorite authors. He was one of those lucky random finds. I took a book out of the library because it looked like it wouldn't be terrible, and it turned out to be hilarious, utterly insane, and ...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Feb 2, 2012, 3:22 pm
Time is running out to sign up for World Book Night. The deadline is midnight on February 6th. To quote their website: We need book-loving volunteers to fan out across America on April 23, 2012! Just take 20 free copies of a book to a location in your community, and you just might change some...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Feb 1, 2012, 1:30 am
By Garth Nix and Sean Williams Available now from Scholastic Press Review copy I have always loved Garth Nix's books. SABRIEL and its sequels might be my favorites, but I was never disappointed. I continued to read The Keys to the Kingdom series even though I was rather old for ...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jan 31, 2012, 7:55 pm
Lauren of Shooting Stars Mag is awarding a LGBT/Ally scholarship. You can apply here through March 1st. To support the scholarship, she's hosting a series of auctions here. Half the current auctions end tomorrow; half on Friday. The lots available include a set of six Julie Anne Peters nov...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jan 30, 2012, 2:00 am
By Elizabeth Eulberg Available now from Scholastic Point Review Copy Now available in paperback, PROM & PREJUDICE is a cute, clever update of Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bennet is a scholarship student at Longbourn Academy who has a disastrous first meet...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jan 29, 2012, 1:30 pm
It's been a strange few months guys. I'm sorry I haven't been around here - but that doesn't mean I haven't been reading. First, you have to hear this NPR interview with Newbery Award Winner Jack Gantos. I read the Joey Pigza books in elementary and loved them. And even if the winning nove...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Sep 27, 2011, 7:58 pm
Just say no to selling ARCs. (via Shelf Awareness)
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Sep 22, 2011, 5:00 pm
Remember this? Well, parents and guardians can now check out SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE and TWENTY BOY SUMMER from a secure section of the school library, according to this Reuters article. What a victory. Banned Books Week runs from September 24-October 1. You can use the resources provided by the...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Sep 16, 2011, 3:45 pm
... ; Wittlinger, Ellen. Hard Love. Sequel Love & Lies. Wittlinger is a badass, ya'll. Badass. Check out Parrotfish too. Wolff, Virginia Euwer. True Believer. Wolff is an incredible author. Please read this one, please. Fantasy Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Wolfcry. This is the fourt...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Sep 16, 2011, 12:33 am
Yes, I am late to the linking. I was super excited to learn through the comments on the article that there is a recent YA novel with an asexual character - Karen Healey's GUARDIANS OF THE DEAD. MY PEOPLE ARE NEVER IN BOOKS. I AM SO EXCITED I CAN HARDLY STAND IT. $7.20 at Amazon? ...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Sep 12, 2011, 5:21 pm
Because I'm blind, I just noticed Karen Harrington's comment on this post. Paddywax has a library collection. "Poe" sounds like my kind of scent - cardamom, absynthe, and sandalwood. Scent geeks might also be interested in Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. They have scent collections inspired by ev...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Sep 10, 2011, 11:11 pm
I'm rarely about to attend Forever Young Adult's book club at the Highball in Austin. (It's worth attending, if you are in the area.) But I'm still on the mailing list. Rebecca Halpern sent out this letter about Recycled Reads, which I've actually been to but never posted about. (I know, I'm bad...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Aug 23, 2011, 7:30 pm
The Young Wizards series, by Diane Duane, is one of my favorites. I just bought A WIZARD OF MARS, the ninth book, at a local Borders. It reminded me to get online and look for news about the tenth book. Unfortunately, there's no publication date yet for GAMES WIZARDS PLAY.  Instead, I discovered t...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Aug 19, 2011, 9:20 pm
Everyone knows I love bookish fashion. So I was excited to see these kicks in Shelf Awareness. THE SCARLET LETTER may be one of my favorite books, but I prefer foreverRebuilt's take on Robert Heinlein's THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS. Which shoe is your favorite?
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Aug 12, 2011, 1:30 pm
By Melissa Walker Available now from Bloomsbury Read my review of VIOLET IN PRIVATE Read Melissa's guest blog and watch her guest vlog If there's one thing I learned from the comments section, it's that nothing turns IBWB readers off more than a mention of religious themes. ...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Aug 8, 2011, 1:00 pm
Let's face it, we all love libraries. The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library is fighting back against the school board in Republic, MO that decided to ban SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE and TWENTY BOY SUMMER from their school libraries and curriculum. Republic High School students can go to their website t...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jul 31, 2011, 2:00 pm
By Beth McMullen Available now from Hyperion Review copy Lucy Hamilton lives in San Francisco with her husband Will and son Theo. She's a stay-at-home mother who just got a call from her old job. When she quit, she knew that she could be called back at anytime. That's because L...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jul 27, 2011, 12:20 pm
I am so excited for this book, you don't even know. (And it's not just because I'm a fan of the Decemberists.) The AV Club seems excited too. After all, they have an exclusive trailer. The voice acting is terrible, but the animation is superb. You can read the first four chapters on ...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jul 22, 2011, 2:45 pm
There's No Place Like Here: Brazenhead Books from Etsy on Vimeo. A friend in my magazine workshop group just shared this video. I love it! A secret, illegal used bookstore hidden in an apartment in New York City? I'd say that I'd look up the shop and explore there tomorrow, but I'm plannin...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jul 22, 2011, 12:00 pm
These tabs have been open on my computer for awhile because I wanted to share them but kept getting distracted by school things. Philip Hensher eloquently defended fiction in The Independent. I don't think this is anything ya'll don't know, but it's well-written and I like it when people tal...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jul 21, 2011, 1:00 am
By Jennifer Jabaley Available now from Razorbill (Penguin) Review copy The beginning of CRUSH CONTROL is winning. Willow returns to her hometown after years as her mother's assistant in Vegas. She knows how to hypnotize a crowd, but not how to interact with people her own age. ...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jul 9, 2011, 12:30 pm
I discovered this site last night and I've been pouring over it since. The only covers represented are lit fic, but they're beautiful. There also links to other great sites/blogs about covers. Now we just need someone to take over for Jacket Whys for children's and YA covers since it hasn't ...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jul 9, 2011, 12:00 am
The release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 has led to a variety of articles about HP fanworks. This article in Parade is disappointingly slight. A group of fans created rules for a magic-less version of Quidditch. Their creation is now played at the intercollegiate level. It's an...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jul 7, 2011, 2:11 pm
Photo by Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio This is my kind of house.
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jun 30, 2011, 5:00 pm
Summer reading suggestions for kids of all ages by Jo Walton (via Shelf Awareness) This article caught my eye since the suggestions came from Abu Dhabi and I used to have family there. The suggested reading is standard but solid. On the YALSA blog you can find information about their S...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jun 30, 2011, 11:25 am
About a month ago, I read Aimee Bender's THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE. It's a brilliant book. The basic conceit is that Rose Edelstein tastes the emotions in food. Her mother is crushed by despair; a local baker is impatient and frustrated. One point is almost unbearably creepy, but...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jun 29, 2011, 1:00 am
A certain set of WSJ pieces (no I'm not linking) has the YA community up in arms, as well it should. The research is shoddy and the argument is ill-constructed. Perhaps the WSJ missed Harvard Magazine article about Lauren Mechling: Lauren Mechling ’99 spent a week in the “young adult” corner...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jun 28, 2011, 11:30 am
Deborah Cooke is the author of the Dragon Diaries series. The first book, FLYING BLIND, came out this month and I reviewed it here. But some of ya'll might already be familiar due to her paranormal romance series, Dragonfire. She also writes as Claire Delacroix, has a large backlist available in ...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jun 26, 2011, 12:18 pm
Bookish.com will launch later this summer. Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin partnered to found the site, with AOL providing advertising. But it is a publisher neutral site - in six months, nobody at Hachette, Simon & Schuster, or Penguin will be involved. The site will also launch with boo...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jun 25, 2011, 12:45 pm
By Lauren Weisberger Available now from Atria Review copy If you've read a book by Lauren Weisberger before, you know the basics of the experience. It will be set in New York; it will deal with the difficulty of balancing careers and personal lives. Her books also have a nice au...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jun 11, 2011, 11:00 am
By Deborah Cooke Available now from NAL Trade (Penguin) Review copy I can be a stick in the mud sometimes, so I'm starting this review with a PSA moment. When someone is threatening to destroy your personal property and asks you what you're going to do about it, you say, "I'm goin...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jun 6, 2011, 4:25 pm
When updating my packing list today, I realized being in New York this summer means I can probably attend some of those signings in New York that always sound so exciting. Anyone know of some good ones I can tentatively put on my schedule? I also just realized that the Summer 2011 issue of S...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jun 5, 2011, 5:30 pm
I bought two books this week: the Oprah's Book Collection edition of A TALE OF TWO CITIES/GREAT EXPECTATIONS and S. M. Stirling's A TAINT IN THE BLOOD. I also received a big box of books to review for TGTBTU. I'm not writing all those down, but I will tell you I am currently reading MAGIC SLAYS by...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - Jun 3, 2011, 2:00 pm
Oddly, in the years I've been writing this blog, the spam has not been uncontrollable. I was worried, with the prominently posted e-mail and such. Then, about a month ago, I started getting at least 30 spam messages a day. Luckily my spam folder is catching most of them. I tried setting my contro...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - May 31, 2011, 5:40 pm
In addition to doing my homework, I've been reading Doug LeMoine's blog, which has been around for a ridiculously long time. A friend linked it on Facebook. Specifically, she linked to where he'd typed up English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subjects, a satirical linguistics paper that is N...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - May 28, 2011, 4:02 pm
By K. A. Applegate Available now from Scholastic Review copy I started reading the Animorphs shortly before the eleventh book was released. I was in third grade then, and too old for the series when the last book came out. But I was still following the series, because the Animor...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - May 27, 2011, 1:30 pm
By M. J. Rose Available now from Mira (Harlequin) Review copy M. J. Rose's Reincarnationist series is popular, but I've remained skeptical. I find reincarnation kind of goofy. Objectively, reincarnation is far less goofy than vampires or fairies, which I like. I prefer to treat ...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - May 26, 2011, 11:00 pm
Scholastic's new social networking venture is YouAreWhatYouRead.com. There is a children's version available here and teacher guides for younger readers and older readers. The main thrust of the site is sharing your Bookprint: five books that shaped your life. Personally, I'm still workin...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - May 23, 2011, 1:45 am
By Daphne Uviller Available now from Bantam Review copy I didn't really know what to expect with HOTEL NO TELL. I hadn't read the first book about Zephyr Zuckerman, SUPER IN THE CITY. But the press release promised comedy and the cover struck me as a modern update on noir. I'd ...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - May 11, 2011, 8:57 pm
Scholastic's Read Every Day program is hosting a charity auction to raise funds for Reading Is Fundamental and Reach Out and Read, two literacy programs that recently lost federal funding. The auction is here and features original artwork by twelve children's artists. Lots close on June 5, s...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - May 10, 2011, 11:10 pm
I haven't been reviewing much lately. One problem is that I keep reading books I'm deeply conflicted about. WITHER by Lauren DeStefano showed up at my house unexpectedly. I was ridiculously excited and started it immediately. A number of bloggers that I respect reviewed it well. I could ...
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Liviania S. posted an article on In Bed With Books - May 7, 2011, 1:10 am
It's Free Comic Book Day! The AV Club has deets on which books will be given out this year. The store locator is here. So go find a shop near you and try out some comics for free.
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