Welcome to part 2 of my yearly review. (If you missed yesterday’s post, where I break down my reading and blogging stats, you can find it here.)
Today, I’ll be looking at how I did with all the challenges I entered this year, so if that kind of thing doesn’t interest you, feel free to [...]

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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I set myself a target of reading 50 new authors this year, and with Jean Thesman’s The Other Ones I hit the target today!
You can see all 50 of the authors on this page.
But I thought I’d highlight five of them here, and these five are really going to make [...]

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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 [...]

Man Booker Prize, Chair of judges James Naughtie today announced the award’s shortlist, at a press conference held at the Man Group plc’s London headquarters.

The shortlist includes two former winners in AS Byatt and JM Coetzee, and in Sarah Waters a previously shortlisted author. Coetzee is one of only two authors to have one 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 [...]

Update: The shortlist has been announced!
The longlist for the 2009 Man Booker Prize was announced today.
The longlist includes two former winners in AS Byatt and JM Coetzee, and in Sarah Waters and Colm Tobin, two previously shortlisted authors. Coetzee is one of only two authors to have one the prize twice (with Life & Times [...]

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 following list is purely my own opinion, and you are encouraged to share your own opinions and even disagree in the comments. Even when you’re wrong! :p
These are my favourite ever characters from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.

Granny Weatherwax
DEATH
Death of Rats (SQUEEK!)
C.M.O.T Dibbler
Broken/Mended Drum (Yes. Yes. I know it’s a place, but you can not [...]