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A highly scientific analysis of the Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 2 trailer, Part 2

June 17, 2011
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OH DANG YOU GUYS, Warner Bros released yet another trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2! You know, because I hadn’t already devoted about 95% of my brain space to thinking about the movie. FINE. TAKE THE LAST 5% WARNER BROTHERS. I will now need someone to spoon feed me. Thank god [...]

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More tattoos! Tattoos forever!

June 8, 2011
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A few weeks back, I posted an exposé into the DARK, SEEDY world of YA literary tattoos. Actually, aside from the occasional actor’s face (and basically every Twilight tattoo ever), most of them were pretty neato! So I requested that the FYA readers share their YA tattoos. And you guys did not disappoint!

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if you like it then you shoulda put ink on it

May 19, 2011
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We love YA lit around here.* You could say we live, breathe, eat and (literally) sleep YA lit. So how can we show the world a book’s significance or impact it had on us? Or with so many other fans out there, how does one show that they’re a bit more of a superfan than [...]

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Disney’s Prom: [insert YA cliché here]

May 2, 2011
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Dang, y’all, a lot of shizz happened in the last few days! Wills and Kate got married and kissed (TWICE OMG), Bin Laden was found and killed, and, most important of all, DISNEY’S PROM CAME OUT!!!! Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Posh, plz. It’s a Disney movie full of clichés. How could it be [...]

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An extremely scientific analysis of the new Deathly Hallows Pt 2 trailer

April 28, 2011
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HOLY HOGWARTS, you guys! The new trailer for Deathly Hallows Part 2, aka the last Harry Potter movie, aka How Will We Go On Living, just got released, and WE HAVE SO MUCH TO CONVO ABOUT. Specifically, when will it be July 15th? And also, how much more thrilling is this two minutes than then [...]

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Extremely Scientific Swoon Analysis: The Hunger Games

April 14, 2011
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Welcome back to FYA’s second edition of our Extremely Scientific Swoon Analysis (TM), where we take the swoonest scenes from the swooniest YA books and use The Scientific Method and Qualitative Measures and Deductive Reasoning and Other Important Sounding Things to dissect what gives a scene its swoonability, its swoonature, its swoonessence! We can use [...]

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In which we tangle with the law… maybe.

April 7, 2011
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Keen-eyed readers of this website (which had better be all of you) may remember reading a post yesterday that contained our take on what we believed to be the official Hunger Games movie script.  You may have even commented!  For that we thank you, as ever, with imaginary champ cans and cupcakes. We took the [...]

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Extremely Scientific Swoon Analysis: Almost Perfect

April 1, 2011
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Holla book readers!  Welcome to the first edition of FYA’s Extremely Scientific Swoon Analysis, in which we put our thinking caps on to bring you an in-depth look at some of the swooniest scenes from our favorite books! And what better book to kick off this shindig but Almost Perfect, a gem written by Mr. [...]

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Book vs. Movie: Looking For Alibrandi

March 31, 2011
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After writing and posting my review on Melina Marchetta’s first novel, Looking For Alibrandi, and reading the comments that were coming in, I couldn’t help myself. I watched the movie. Maybe it was a little bit of Alibrandi overload but I’m a glutton in all things, so I have a pretty high tolerance.* And boy [...]

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Getting Your Fix On (YA Edition)

March 25, 2011
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As a completely unabashed YA admit, I find often myself thinking about when I’m going to get my next hit. Despite always having more books than I can ever find time to read, as a true addict I cannot stop from fantasizing about the books I haven’t scored yet. Maybe I should pre-order that book, [...]

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