YA Highway: Archive

March 2012

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March 29, 2012; New York – If you’re a blogger who loves books, that passion might get you far: all the way to New York and the…

Mar 30, 20123 notes

#book bloggers #bea

Mar 30, 2012127,602 notes

#the hunger games #your mom jokes #never get old

Mar 30, 201222,262 notes

#tom felton #draco malfoy #ron weasley #rupert grint #harry potter #bromance

Mar 30, 2012150 notes

#the hunger games #spongebob #squidgale? #galeward?

Mar 30, 201212 notes

#trolling #joel stein #young adult #lit

That terrifying feeling when you are finishing a book and THERE AREN'T ENOUGH PAGES LEFT FOR ALL OF THE THINGS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN.

bookaddict24-7:

This happens TOO often. Sigh.

Mar 30, 2012184,586 notes

#I hate cliffhangers.

Play

Mar 30, 201211 notes

#lit

Just Say No To The 'Cinnamon Challenge' → npr.org

Mar 29, 2012204 notes

#silly teens #cinnamon is not for kids

Subverting Your Writing → yahighway.com

How to manipulate tropes to create something richer, using Sansa as illustration.

Mar 29, 20120 notes

#sumayyah daud #lit #writing #tropes #game of thrones #sansa stark #ya highway

Mar 29, 201245,861 notes

#the hunger games #seneca crane #THE BEARD

Hey, You Know Who That Looks Like? → yahighway.com

Is that Liv Tyler on the cover of Shut Out? How did Richelle Mead get Angelina Jolie on Vampire Academy? Kirsten Hubbard looks at lookalike covers.

Mar 29, 20124 notes

#kirsten hubbard #young adult #book covers #design #richelle mead #vampire academy #kody keplinger #shut out #ya highway

The Giveaway of Many 4s! → veronicarothbooks.blogspot.com

theartofnotwriting:

4 Insurgent ARCs + 4 Divergent Paperbacks = 4 Winners on April 4th. Yes, that’s right, 4 + 4 = 4. I don’t care what your math teacher told you.

Mar 29, 201253 notes

#contest #giveaway #divergent #insurgent #veronica roth #ya highway

Harry Potter's fourth child was called "Dobby Hedwig" and his fifth was called "George's Ear"

Mar 28, 201223,072 notes

#harry potter #albus severus renesmee charlisle jacward forthelove

Mar 28, 201211,014 notes

#lit

Mar 28, 20121,449 notes

#veronica roth #divergent #insurgent #ya highway

Mar 28, 20127 notes

#teen author festival #young adult #kody keplinger #books of wonder #ya highway

“I’m trying to figure out how insulated one has to be from the wider world to be shocked! shocked! that racism is pervasive in American culture, and among American teens. Those wide-eyed tweets about Rue’s death being less sad because she’s black clearly come straight from the brains of adolescents (nearly all of them white, presumably) who have bathed in subtly and overtly racist culture since birth, absorbed far too much of it, and not yet learned to second-guess or even censor themselves when they parrot its tenets. They’re surprising only if you haven’t noticed that when real people of color are killed, there’s always an immediate attempt to justify or downplay the deaths. Art imitates life; reactions to art likewise imitate life.” —An article at Publisher’s Weekly on fans’ racist reactions to learning that Rue is black. The article also gives a shout-out to Racebending.com (via racebending)

Mar 28, 20121,343 notes

#the hunger games #racism

Mar 28, 2012866 notes

#reading #books #lit

Mar 27, 201225,432 notes

#the hunger games #katniss #jennifer lawrence #BEST