Yearly Archives:: 2017

Saturday, April 15, 2017

Fresh Batch (April 16th – 22nd)

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Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Missing
Kelley Armstrong
Publication date: April 18th 2017
by Crown Books for Young Readers

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The only thing Winter Crane likes about Reeve’s End is that soon she’ll leave it. Like her best friend did. Like her sister did. Like most of the teens born in town have done. There’s nothing for them there but abandoned mines and empty futures. They’re better off taking a chance elsewhere.

The only thing Winter will miss is the woods. Her only refuge. At least it was. Until the day she found Lennon left for dead, bleeding in a tree.

But now Lennon is gone too. And he has Winter questioning what she once thought was true. What if nobody left at all? What if they’re all missing?

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *


– The Adjustment (The Program #3) by Suzanne Young [Purchase]
– Meg & Linus by Hanna Nowinski [Purchase]
– The Edge of the Abyss (The Abyss Surrounds Us #2) by Emily Skrutskie [Purchase]
– Bang by Barry Lyga [Purchase]


– The Thing About Love by Julie James [Purchase]
– Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman [Purchase]
– Cold Front (The Fires of Destiny #2) by Nikolai Joslin [Purchase]
– The Bite of Winter (International Monster Slayers #2) by Bethany Helwig [Purchase]


– Terminate (Retribution #1) by Natasha Deen [Purchase]
– Grendel’s Guide to Love and War by A.E. Kaplan [Purchase]
– If This Is Home by Kristine Scarrow [Purchase]
– Identify by Lesley Choyce [Purchase]


– The Sky Throne by Chris Ledbetter [Purchase]


What’s on your wishlist this week?

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Learn How to Read a Book in 6 Quick Steps

Posted by on 04/11/2017 • 6 Comments

Always wanted to read a book but the idea of touching one makes you want to cry? It’s okay! I GOT YOUR BACK. I will teach you how to read a book in 6 quick steps.

1. Break into your roommate’s room and look around for a book.

If you don’t have a roommate or your roommate isn’t a reader, move into a place with a roommate who reads.

2. Grab a book at random. Since you’re not much of a reader, you probably don’t have a preference.

The next step will be key to deciding whether or not you and the book are MEANT TO BE.

3. Sniff it.

This is perhaps the most important step in the process because it will help you determine whether or not the book…

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Fresh Batch (April 9th – 15th)

Fresh Batch (April 9th – 15th)

Posted by on 04/08/2017 • 1 Comment

Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

The Upside of Unrequited Becky Albertalli Publication date: April 11th 2017by Balzer & Bray

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Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection. So she’s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.

Then a cute new girl enters Cassie’s orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly’s cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly’s totally not dying of loneliness—except for the part where she is. Luckily, Cassie’s new girlfriend comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick. If Molly can win…

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Different in a Good Way: Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon

Posted by on 04/07/2017 • 2 Comments

Motorbike clubs is always a good way to get a person’s attention but I honestly did not expect what I got from Done Dirt Cheap. I assumed there would be an element of fluff to the book but instead, what I got was a complex, thoughtfully crafted novel with words that just jumped off the page. There are some books you finish that will oddly make you feel nostalgic for something you don’t even quite remember and Done Dirt Cheap was that book for me. In some ways it was reminiscent of the contemporary YA novels I grew up on.

I think part of the nostalgia for me came from the focus on female friendships in this book. Like both the main characters have their love interests and those relationships are important (and…

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4 Reasons to Read Geekerella by Ashley Poston

Posted by on 04/04/2017 • 6 Comments

GEEKERELLA is everything it promises to be. It is incredibly cute and adorably nerdy. Did you grow up kind of obsessed with the Another Cinderella Story movies? Do you want to read a book that is at least the first movie in book form? YOU’VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE. GEEKERELLA is everything you will ever want from a modern adaptation of a Cinderella retelling. It reminded me so much of why modern retellings of fairy tales are some of my favorite things to read.

Elle grew up watching Starfield (a Star Trek-esque show) with her father. It is one of her few connections to him now that he is gone and it is also one of her only form of escapes. It has allowed her to connect to…

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Fresh Batch (April 2nd – 8th)

Fresh Batch (April 2nd – 8th)

Posted by on 04/01/2017 • 1 Comment

Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Letters to the Lost Brigid Kemmerer Publication date: April 4th 2017by Bloomsbury USA Childrens

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Juliet Young always writes letters to her mother, a world-traveling photojournalist. Even after her mother’s death, she leaves letters at her grave. It’s the only way Juliet can cope.

Declan Murphy isn’t the sort of guy you want to cross. In the midst of his court-ordered community service at the local cemetery, he’s trying to escape the demons of his past.

When Declan reads a haunting letter left beside a grave, he can’t resist writing back. Soon, he’s opening up to a perfect stranger, and their connection…

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Diverse Books Out March 2017

Posted by on 03/31/2017 • 0 Comments

Hello and welcome to the March round up of Diverse Releases! If you’ve been following this feature since its birth two months ago, you’ll know that Nick from Nick & Nereyda’s Infinite Booklist and I do round ups of all the diverse books out that month at the end of it. If we missed an important release, please let us know and if we include something that has problematic rep, please let us know as well! We want this round up to be as accurate as possible while also adding books to people’s TBRs that might have otherwise slipped under the radar!

1. Future Threat by Elizabeth Briggs

Release Date: March 1st

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2. You’re Welcome Universe by Whitney Gardner

Release Date: March 7th

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Deaf,…

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Timely and Important: Saint Death by Marcus Sedgwick

Posted by on 03/30/2017 • 1 Comment

Saint Death is one of those books you are going to want to hurl across the room, not because you hate it but because its too painful. Or you could do what Joey does and put scary books in the freezer for another day. The release of the book is so timely and I hope that it will reach the hands of many because it is such an important book. Right now, the conversation surrounding immigration is one of the most politically charged ones. People feel like immigrants are ruining their lives and that the answer is to throw up metaphorical and literal walls between countries. To this I respond with:

I am going slightly off topic and that’s fine because Saint Death is a book that is going to start…

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