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Blogoversary Chapter Four: Once More – With Feeling

2012 has seen a lot of negativity surrounding reviews already. Let’s state for the record that we’re only halfway into January and it’s been pretty hot and heavy since the first week of January. It began with a bang in the young adult author arena. I know many of you already know the breakdown, but [...]

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Shock Value Reading

Since I’ve got no new reviews in the wings yet – A Soldier’s Duty coming up soonishly – I thought I’d share a little about what I’m reading at this point in time and, subsequently, what it has my Musings Machine wondering about. Before we go on, yes, there will be spoilerish things for the [...]

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Why So Serious?

You know, sometimes we (you, me, whoever) get the best comments over at our Amazon reviews, don’t we, Lurvlets? From Katherin A. Wyka on my review of Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick: I read the book and loved it. I am not a teenager, it is a book why so serious!!!!! As soon as i [...]

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Solo vs. Group Blogging & Publisher Expectations

Yeah, it’s a post about blogging – but I swear it’s without any preachage. Well, not much. At least I don’t think so. Hmm, not sure. Proceed at normal speeds? I was having an interesting 140-character-centric-per-tweet twitter convo with a few other book bloggers and it sparked the ‘ole post light bulb. I thought, Solo [...]

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This is How a Reading Slump Feels

Or, rather, how readers feel when they’re in a reading slump. Eh – whatever. I’m sure you got the idea. First, you feel a little trapped. You feel like you should finish the book, but after several more pages of anguish and angst and general craptastic reading times, you wish you’d busted out of that [...]

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