Okay, this one should be fun… *Installs flaming barrier*
My top ten Harry Potter & Discworld characters posts, went down well, and a lot of fun was had debating the choices. So I thought with the release of the 2nd Twilight film (New Moon for those living under a rock) I’d do the same [...]

It’s at this time of year that I’m sure many a book-blogger’s mind is starting to compile their review-of-the-year posts, planning to stuff them with book lists, reading stats, challenge results, and much more bookish goodness.
One feature that will almost certainly be present in all of them is the ‘Books/Reads of [...]

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A few months ago, I posted about the Top Five YA Dystopian novels I had read in the last year…
I received some great suggestions to add to the list in the comments to that post, and I myself have read some other great books that didn’t meat the criteria of being read in the [...]

Since the 19th of July, The Book Smugglers have been celebrating their Young Adult Appreciation Month, with guest posts, authors interviews, reviews and giveaways. But today they have thrown the door open to everybody else, to discuss all things Young Adult in the bookish world.
So without further ado, I present, In no particular order, 10 [...]

Notice anything familiar about the above covers? Because to me they remind me of something, I just cant put my finger on it…
Now the Bronte I can at least understand as it as Bella and Edward discuss it, but the one that really saddens me is this one:

Which is the cover that adorns [...]

dys⋅to⋅pi⋅a [dis-toh-pee-uh]
–noun
a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
Time for another favourite/tops list and this time I thought it might be fun to take a look at my favourite dystopian young adult books I’ve read over the last year or so (that I’ve been book-blogging):

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The Hunger Games
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it [...]

The email arrives, and you are tempted to delete it with the dozen or so, your rich, Nigerian, uncle keeps sending you, asking you to help distribute a particularly generous inheritance.
However, something… You’re not sure what, makes you give it the benefit of the doubt and open it, and at first sight the contents don’t [...]

aka: A Better Way to Contact Me

Like most book bloggers I get my fair share of authors, publishers and publicists making use of my contact form to try to get me to read/promote their latest book.
By far the most common request I get is some variation on the standard ‘form’ letter, now there’s nothing wrong [...]

What with the upcoming release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince  (the world premier was last night in London) I thought I’d do another of my top top ten character lists, this time looking at characters from the Harry Potter books.

Latest Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince Trailer [SPOILERS] on Vimeo.
Now, I’ve [...]

What’s a shelf-talker?
Well they’re those little cards that tell you about a product which are either stuck to a shelf-edge or wrapped around a product, and in a bookshop are generally written by one of the shops staff. (Whether they are actually the employees personal opinion or corporate one is another thing altogether! – and [...]