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Road Trip Wednesaday: Linkage

For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, YA Highway wants to know: What are your favorite reading and writing links? I read a lot of blogs. Seriously, my Google Reader is working overtime. Sometimes I think I read too many blogs, but I just can’t bring myself to pull any of them off the reader (I will admit [...]
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Hold the pickles

We live in a fast food world. By being able to get nearly everything we want, from food to money to marriage, without ever leaving our cars, we have been programmed to expect instant gratification. Be honest, how many times have your feathers been ruffled by a wait? We are used to things happening fast, [...]
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50 degrees and flying high

My shiny new car just informed me that it is 50 degrees out! Of, course, the car has been sitting in the sun with no airflow around it for 5 hours, but the thermometer said 50º nonetheless. I have lived in Montana long enough to know this isn’t the end of Winter. We will have more [...]
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Wiley Kendle was right

The first semester of my junior year in high school, I took an athletic training class. I loved the teacher so much that I took his anatomy class the second semester. And his 2-hour Med Prep class both semesters senior year. Seriously, I loved Wiley Kendle as a teacher. It has been eight years since I [...]
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Road Trip Wednesday: Procrastination Station

For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, the lovely ladies at YA Highway want to know: The ways you procrastinate. You know. If you get around to it. I have a problem: I am a sneaky procrastinator. I don’t mean that I hide my procrastination from others. I hide it from myself. When I just don’t feel [...]
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Like, whoa

Remember how I have been super excited for Kiersten White’s debut novel, Paranormalcy, for quite some time? Well, the lovely Weronika Janczuk (if you don’t read her blog already, you totally should) is giving away not one, but two preorders (’cause it doesn’t release until September 21st) of Paranormalcy. Um, SQUEE! I am getting this book whether [...]
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Fast Five…

…Confessions! 1. I do Fast Five… posts when I can’t focus long enough to blog about a single thing. I have a list of blog ideas waiting for when I get my focus back. 2. I don’t think baby sonograms are cute. I actually think they are more creepy than anything. And the fancy-pants 3D sonograms? Even [...]
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Trendalicious

The topic of YA Lit Chat on Twitter a couple weeks ago was trend in YA. I participated in a small chunk of the chat, but left early once I realized: Why am I spending time talking about trends instead of writing? Anyone who reads can recognize certain trends rolling through books, YA or otherwise. You [...]
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Southern Fried Saturday: The Biltmore Estate

If you are an American, chances are you have heard the name Vanderbilt. As in, “no, I can’t buy you a brand new Maserati! Who do you think I am, a Vanderbilt?” The Vanderbilts were rich. But they weren’t just rich like the doctor down the street who buys all his teenagers brand new cars [...]
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2010 Reading

At the end of last year, I joined the 2010 Debut Author challenge and promised to read and review at least 24 debut YA/MG books this year. I haven’t actually read any debuts yet, but I am stubborn so I know I will meet the challenge. I got to thinking today about how much I read. [...]
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