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Book Club of the Month: Los Angeles!

December 1, 2011
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Hey FYA!  Many of you lovelies have started attending our monthly, real-life book clubs, held in various cities near you*!!  These book clubs run from old-fashioned meetups at bookstore cafes to drunken (loud) conversations in bars about how two chimera manage to coordinate their limbs to have sex.  And normally every month I like to give  a [...]

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The October FYA Book Clubs: the most fun you can have discussing Nazi Germany

October 27, 2011
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Holla, FYA! Well, another month is nearly gone. The leaves are turning colors in some other places that aren’t Texas, little kids are gearing up to go trick-or-treating while adults are gearing up to perfect their punch-a-kid-in-the-face-and-steal-their-candy techniques, and lots of FYAers around the world have gathered together to discuss Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, [...]

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Rub my shoulders, Tony Danza: The September FYA Book Club Recap!

September 22, 2011
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Holla FYA!  The last few weeks have been good to me, but it seems like all the good things are winding down today.  It’s still crazy-hot outside, I broke the glass in one of my picture frames and cut my hands all to hell, and I have to go to work tomorrow for the first [...]

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let’s book it to the book club!

September 2, 2011
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You guys!  It’s September!  Here’s your friendly monthly notice that Book Clubs are meeting soon! Don’t forget, we’re reading Lish McBride’s Hold Me Closer, Necromancer.  You can see a full schedule of book clubs at this link right here.  Don’t see a book club in your area?  No worries; fill out the form at the same [...]

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August FYA Book Clubs: The Ultimate Recap!

August 18, 2011
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Well, it is ultimate in that I declare it is.  Ultimate Book Club Recap!  It’s like Ultimate Frisbee, but with less pot.  Or possibly more pot; I don’t know how these people roll. Over the last week or so, YA lovers around the world (well, on three continents, anyway) have come together to hang out, [...]

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You can find me in da club, bottle full of bub

August 8, 2011
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The FYA BOOK CLUB, that is! Oh yeah. I’m hip! It’s finally here, you guys! After weeks of questions, tweets, promises, forms and emails, we are proud to say that this month, over 35 cities will participate in the FYA Worldwide Book Club! With even more cities ready to start up in September! You can [...]

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let’s all go to a book club!

July 19, 2011
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I’ve always wanted to be in a book club.  I know, that’s sort of a silly ambition, because it’s a book club.  I should just . . . go.  But I’m super shy (stop laughing!  I am!  Sort of!  In person, anyway, if I don’t have any liquid courage in me) and, much like Fitzwilliam [...]

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FYABC: Delirium by Lauren Oliver

February 10, 2011
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What up, club kids! As you may know, we’re having a REAL LIVE IN PERSON meeting of our FYA book club on Sunday to discuss Lauren Oliver’s Delirium, which I will be reviewing later today. But we understand that not everyone can just hop in their private jet and fly to Austin to join us, [...]

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finally, a chance to read and drink cocktails!

January 19, 2011
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Because you certainly never have an excuse to do that, DO YOU? Y’all, we have a v. exciting announcement to share. GET YR CHAMP CANS READY. I am pleased as (spiked) punch to announce that the FYA Book Club is finally going to be a real boy! WE’RE GOING LIVE, YOU GUYS! So, if you [...]

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FYABC (“b” is for “book” not “banning”)

September 29, 2010
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good morning, angels! we’re breaking into banned book week coverage here to bring you a quick reminder of the book club happening down in the caf. this month we read siobhan vivian’s not that kind of girl — grab a seat and share the dish about natalie and what secrets are hiding under that tightly [...]

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