Bookish Blather Reviews and commentary on the latest YA books

Whoa...new look for Blogger...trippy. But! I'm not back to talk about blog service layouts, I'm back to talk about a new book! Yaaaaaaaay! Invisible Sun by David Macinnis Gill is the sequel to 2010's Black Hole Sun, which was easily one of my top books of the year. The combination of humor and awes

In many ways, 2011 was a fabulous year for me. Got to spend quality time with family and friends, my family is healthy and happy, and I continue to have steady employment. That's so much more than so many other people can say, that I recognize how lucky I am and continue to count my blessings. Howe

Julie Halpern totally won me over with Into the Wild Nerd Yonder, so even though Don't Stop Now didn't promise me nerdy D&D hijinks, I still needed to check it out. There may be no D&D, but I love road trips, so I thought this would be worth a shot - and I was totally right. When Lillian's sorta-fr

I'm not really a big video gamer - I like to say that video games got too advanced for me around the era of the N64. Once they stopped doing side scrolling games? I was totally lost. But my brother is a huge gamer, so despite hardly playing a game at all, I try to keep abreast of the latest gaming

First, the results of my weekly library trip: Picked up this week: Sweetly - Jackson Pearce This Thing Called the Future - JL Powers Dust and Decay - Jonathan Maberry Still have from last week, haven't started: The Floating Islands - Rachel Neumeier Wrapped - Jennifer Bradbury Finishing now: Supe

I ended up taking the whole summer off from blogging, for all intents and purposes. Didn't really mean to, that's just kind of how it happened. Back in June...I don't even really remember what I was reading, but I was getting burned out because so much of it felt kind of repetitive and derivative th