I’m back from suffragette city

January 31, 2012
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BOOK REPORT for Truth by Julia Karr Cover Story: Passing BFF Charm: Yay Swoonworthy Scale: 4 Talky Talk: Easy, Breezy, Thrillerful Bonus Factors: Feminism, The Future Relationship Status: Sister Suffragette

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PLL 2×18: A Kiss Before Lying

January 31, 2012
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Greetings, comrades.  By the time you are reading this, it is Tuesday.  You can safely presume that I’m hungover, bitter about not being indepentantly wealthy, and probably glaring at my computer screen at work EVEN AS YOU READ THESE WORDS!  {Ed. update: not hungover, but I have a sore throat and a cough!  Why???  Therefore, [...]

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Between Two Lockers with Mike Mullin

January 31, 2012
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Greetings, all who spend their workdays reside in forever Young Adultland!  Today we’ve managed to nab a conversation with Mike Mullin, author of Ashfall. In my review, I credited this book for giving me some major stress attacks and gaining a few pounds due to the fact that there’s no such thing as pizza after [...]

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South to the west to the east to the north

January 30, 2012
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BOOK REPORT for Harbinger by Sara Wilson Etienne cover story: two strikes bff charm: proceed with extreme caution swoonworthy scale: 6.5 talky talk: 2 legit 2 quit bonus factors: reform school, moral relativism, mysterious loner dude relationship status: this could be love

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in which Ashley Perez reminds people that readers are not idiots

January 30, 2012
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What’s up, FYAers! It’s Monday, and I think we all know how I feel about that. BUT! Today is a very special Monday (no, not because I managed to make it through an entire day without meetings, and no, it’s not because I don’t find myself wishing I could contract some nasty flu virus that [...]

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Marianne Dashwood, The Bachelorette

January 30, 2012
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Hey y’all! Welcome to the second installment of our Sense and Sensibility Readalong, in which we take Jane Austen’s beloved characters and warp them for our own amusement while wishing we were as poor as the Dashwoods, because then we could be eating scones and painting mediocre landscapes instead of sitting in an office, nursing [...]

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this knife slayed me

January 27, 2012
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BOOK REPORT for The Knife and the Butterfly by Ashley Hope Perez cover story: simple and spot-on bff charm: nay/yay swoonworthy scale: 3 talky talk: straight up bonus factors: gang life, H-town’s many facets, kickass gram award relationship status: thinking about marrying into the family

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FYA Recommends One More Way For You To Waste Time

January 27, 2012
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I bet I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking you’re damn glad it’s Friday. Okay, fine, that was a given. But do you know what else you’re thinking? You’re thinking that between this blog, other blogs, news outlets, youtube and all of your social networks…that you just don’t have enough to do on the internet. [...]

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a french 75 just doesn’t buy you a bad book these days

January 27, 2012
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BOOK REPORT for The Changeover by Margaret Mahy cover story: WHAT. bff charm: a self-seeking yay and an all the way yay swoonworthy scale: 2 talky talk: a comfortable shade of purple bonus factors: Jacko, New Zealand relationship status: the blind date that took me by surprise

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Even the Big Dipper can’t hold my love for this book

January 26, 2012
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BOOK REPORT for The Fault In Our Stars by John Green cover story: like a mothereffing ADULT! bff charm: a thousand times yes swoonworthy scale: 8 talky talk: John Greentastic bonus factors: non-Nicholas Sparks cancer, Cliff Huxtable Award of Awesome Dadhood, Amsterdam, The Price of Dawn relationship status: infinite love

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