Month: June 2014

Big Book Summer Challenge

I recently found this challenge over at Book By Book, and I thought it sounded great, especially as I found it right as I was starting a book with over 500 pages.  And for this challenge, you only have to pledge to read ONE book over 400 pages.  So how simple is that?  This challenge […]

Posted June 12, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Review: The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings

First thanks to Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins, and Edelweiss for allowing me to read an e-galley of this title.  I have followed this author as a blogger for a while now, and was very excited to be able to read this book when I saw it was available.  This was a pretty quick read.  It had […]

Posted June 10, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Review: Storm by Donna Jo Napoli

I got a copy of this book through the YA Book Exchange.  I was intrigued by the topic, basically it is a kind of retelling of the story of Noah and the Ark from the bible.  Along with the recent movie and its controversy, the topic seemed like an interesting one to go ahead and […]

Posted June 8, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

BEA 2014 Day 3 Recap (and Book Con)

The last day of BEA is usually much more relaxed.  Not this year however.  Book Con majorly changed that, with anywhere from 6,000-8,000 more people in the Javits Center that day.  Sure, they were kept in only one part of the convention center.  The only problem with that?  It was the section where almost all […]

Posted June 7, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

BEA 2014 Day 2 Recap

My 2nd day went much better.  After I had sat down the night before and made a definite plan, I was able to avoid a lot of stress, and get pretty much my main books that I had hoped to get, or meet the authors I really wanted to meet.  My day started out by […]

Posted June 6, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

BEA 2014 Day 1 Recap

So, it is exactly 1 week after the first day of BEA.  I guess that is a fitting day to do a recap.  I thought I was planned and remembered things from when I attended 2 years ago.  But let’s just say that my first day didn’t go as well as I’d hoped.  I definitely […]

Posted June 5, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments