Month: March 2016

#FF & Short Stories: Love ’em or Hate ’em

March 25, 2016 | Discussion, Weekly by Austine

Short Stories (as companions to series): What do you love about them and hate about them? Added short stories are great, especially at the end of a series when you want to know what happened after The End but the story is over so there isn’t enough to have a whole new book. Also, I love short stories that provide backstory for a side character you’d otherwise […]

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Top Ten Books I Love But Don’t Talk About Enough

March 22, 2016 | Weekly by Austine

I think we all have those favorites that, while we know we love them, we don’t share them around like we do other books. These are a few of mine that I think are absolutely amazing. I recommend them to friends, give them a high place on my shelves, but outside of that, they don’t get enough love from me. What book do you love […]

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Review - Defy by Sara B. Larson

March 20, 2016 | Book Review by Austine

I regret not reading the reviews for this book sooner. Typically, I wait until after I’ve finished the book to see what others thought. There have been titles that I loved but most seemed to dislike, and vice versa. Defy was not one of them. Based on the synopsis, the book sounds like a young adult fantasy with a romantic subplot — one involving a love […]

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#FF & Biggest Pet Peeves with Books

March 11, 2016 | Discussion, Weekly by Austine

What are some of your biggest pet peeves with books? Aside from the glaringly obnoxious love triangle that continues to appear in a lot of young adult fiction, I think one of my biggest issues is the addition of romance as a subplot when it’s not needed or really warranted (also add poorly-written romance subplots). Don’t get me long, I love romances both as a genre and […]

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