Teaser Tuesdays: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 


Anyone can play along! 


Just do the following:
    • Grab your current read
    • Open to a random page
    • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
    • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
    • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Quote comes from page 76 of:
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making
by Catherynne M. Valente

"Being careful and clever readers, you must now wonder if your wool-gathering narrator has completely forgotten the jeweled key that so loyally followed September into Fairyland.  Not so!  But a key's adventuring is of necessity a quieter thing than a girl's, more single-minded and also more fraught with loneliness."

#ArmChairBEA: BUZZ Panels - Tweens & Teens

Thanks to the great BEA coverage from Publisher's Weekly...


BEA 2011: A BEA First: A Middle-Grade Buzz Panel 

There’s a kind of inferiority complex at work in the middle-grade market, which is sometimes perceived as receiving less attention and respect than its YA older sibling (which, in turn, has its own self-esteem issues when compared to the adult publishing world). But while the first-ever Middle-Grade Editors Buzz Panel at BEA wasn’t an SRO affair as were the YA and adult panels, it was still quite full. And more importantly, the five editors on stage confirmed what most devotees already know: middle-grade fiction can have all the action, wonder, and power as books published for older readers.

Moderator Lisa Von Drasek, librarian at New York’s Bank Street College of Education
Books: The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann; Wildwood by Colin Meloy, illustrated by Carson Ellis; Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby; The Apothecary by Maile Meloy, illustrated by Ian Schoenherr; and The Dragon’s Tooth by N.D. Wilson.

More...http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/47432-bea-2011-a-bea-first-a-middle-grade-buzz-panel.html

BEA 2011: YA Buzz Panel Rocks Javits 

As five editors talked up their favorite YA fall releases to a packed room of about 200 people during Tuesday afternoon’s YA Editor’s Buzz panel at BEA, a few things became clear: these books are what happens when editors want titles that reflect elements of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter. This fall, it’s all about multi-layered thrills, chills, adventure, and romance, mixed in with the paranormal. 

Moderator:  Jack Martin of the New York Public Library

Books: Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor (Little, Brown); Au Revoir Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber (Houghton Mifflin); Carrier of the Mark by Leigh Fallon (HarperCollins); The Unbecoming of Mara Dyerby Michelle Hodkin (Simon & Schuster); and Down the Mysterly Riverby Bill Willingham (Tor). 

More: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/47431-bea-2011-ya-buzz-panel-rocks-javits.html

ArmChair BEA: Day One Reports from the Trenches...

There are some really fabulous reports from the trenches for the School Library Journal coming from:

Susan M. Bartle, Precision Planning Diva of Library & Travel Events, and School Library System Coordinator for the Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES

WOW! I am regretting not being able to get to the Children's Book & Author Breakfast:

The Children's Book & Author Breakfast: This was one of the best children's breakfast programs I've attended in the last five years. This year's lineup included Sarah Dessen, Kevin Henkes, Katherine Paterson, and Brian Selznick, and was hosted by actress Julianne Moore. 

For more from Day One:  http://www.slj.com/slj/newslettersnewsletterbucketextrahelping2/890778-477/bea_2011_sljs_special_assignment.html.csp

Also from MediaBistro's Galley Cat:

As the publishing world concluded one last day of bookselling, panel discussions and parties at BookExpo America, GalleyCat continued to cover the conference.

Check out our BEA 2011 Cheat Sheet if you want to explore the conference and parties. Here are some links to our ongoing coverage…

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/bea-2011-return-of-the-galleycat_b31153

ArmChair BEA

For all those bloggers, reviewers and readers that can't make that trip to NYC!

With all of the perks & benefits of being there - panel discussions, Tweet Ups, Blogger Events, Book Chats, Book Trailers, Introductions and reveals...all from the comfort of your own home!

May 23rd through May 27th!

See the giveaways and events that have already happened and connect with other ArmChair BEA participants at ArmChair BEA Central!    http://www.armchairbea.com/

Countdown to the Clockwork Prince...

Teaser Tuesday - The Haunting of Charles Dickens!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 


Anyone can play along! 


Just do the following:
               • Grab your current read  
               • Open to a random page  
               • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
               • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure
                  that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t
                  want to ruin the book for others!)

               • Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!


My Teaser:


"She is nothing but all those very good things.  I like her well enough, but I would never want to be her.  She does not suspect she could be her own hero.  She waits for others to be that for her."


Page 199; The Haunting of Charles Dickens by Lewis Buzbee


Sorry for taking the liberty of 4 short sentences instead of two sentences...

Review: Curse of the Wolf Girl by Martin Millar

Curse of the Wolf Girl
by Martin Millar

4.0 out of 5 stars This review is from: Curse of the Wolf Girl (Paperback)

If you aren't familiar with this series, I suggest that you start at the beginning...Lonely Werewolf Girl was a much publicized first book for Martin Millar and even garnered praise from Neil Gaiman who encouraged his readers to pick it up. I have to say I loved it and eagerly awaited the follow-up.

Millar's writing is brilliant and his ability to find the voice of a troubled teen (a troubled teen GIRL) is amazing to me. Quirky dialogue, close to crazy at times...Millar excels at those moments when a character is up against the wall, confronting their fears...but he also will make you laugh out loud! You will grow to love these people/creatures...

So, how do I tell you about book two without spoiling the first book for you?

Kalix MacRinnalch is a teenage girl - filled with all of the sadness, angst and self loathing that comes along with that...oh and did I mention that she is also a werewolf?

Curse of the Wolf Girl starts with Kalix in a relatively safe place - in London, living with a human couple and a teenage Fire Elemental who in my opinion steals the show!

I would have given this book a hands down 5 star review but - some of the characters seem stuck. I would have liked to see more growth, especially in Kalix...but do not let this stop you from checking out this book! Millar is a one of a kind author - I think I would read his rendition of the Yellow Pages ;-p

Disclaimer:  I received this book through the Amazon "Vine Program" 

Book Description from Amazon

Kallix, a morose, laudanum-addicted, unschooled, slightly anorexic werewolf is still on the run. The youngest daughter of the Thane of the MacRinnalch Clan of werewolves, held responsible unfairly for the death of the Thane, and justifiably responsible for the deaths of a great many other werewolves, remains prohibited from returning to Scotland in order to maintain the uneasy peace that temporarily prevails in court, despite the endemic debauchery and degeneracy always threatening to again spiral out of control. Frankly, things aren’t much better for her in London than in Scotland. The love of her life is in hiding and her enemies increase in number by the day. Strong as she is when enraged, it’s becoming ever more dangerous to be her. Daniel and Moonglow, her two human friends, do what they can to keep her hidden in plain sight (who would look for a werewolf in a remedial program for high school dropouts?) and keep her fed. Millar is a true world-creator, populating Curse of the Wolf Girl with a universe of characters: fashion-designing werewolves, cross-dressing werewolves, and neurotic, psychotic, and erotic werewolves, as well as fairies, Fire Elementals, and good ole humans — whipping them in faster and faster revolutions with his thrilling, vertiginous rollercoaster narrative.

Teaser Tuesday - The Black!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
           • Grab your current read  
           • Open to a random page  
           • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page  
           • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
            (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away!
             You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)  
           • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book
              to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser is from The Black by D.J. MacHale:

"Some things I did while I was alive I'm not proud of and I wish I knew what I could do here to make up for 'em. Who knows? Maybe it ain't possible and I'll be living in this illusion for the rest of time."

...this is Book Two of the Morpheus Road Trilogy!