GreenBeanTeenQueen

Happy New Year! In the blogging world, January 1st also means the day the finalists are posted for the Cybils Awards. So head on over to the Cybils site and check out the lists as they are posted today. I can't wait to see what makes the shortlists in each category!! And congrats to all the bloggers who served as judges this year on all your hard work!

Happy Holidays!! I hope you have a wonderful day and get all the books you wanted! :) I will be taking a blogging break and will be back in 2013! See you in the new year.

I try to repost my review of this book every year because I love it so much! Also, I think the cover changes are interesting. Here's the original cover, published in 2008: And then the next cover:  And yet another cover: I think all three covers are good but I like 1 and 3 the best. Rating: 5/5 Stars Genre: Romance Release Date:  October 2008 About the Book:  Let It Snow is a new holiday offering from three popular teen authors. Each author contributed a holiday romance short story to add to the collection. Maureen Johnson starts things off with  The Jubilee Express , in which Jubilee (no, not a stripper, but named for a piece in her mother’s collection of the Flobie Santa Village) finds herself stranded on a train in Gracetown in a huge snowstorm. A trip to the Waffle House introduces her to Stuart and friendship, or maybe something more, starts to form. In  A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle , author John Green hilariously de...

  Please welcome author Karen Cushman to the blog! I am so delighted to be hosting Karen Cushman  on tour for her latest book, Will Sparrow's Road. I have been a long time fan and no one writes historical fiction like the amazing Ms. Cushman.   Her latest book is a bit different-this is the first male narrator for the author! Here's Ms. Cushman to talk about why she chose to write from a male point of view this time around.   Why did I write a book about a boy?  I had in mind a story about a child alone and on the road in Elizabethan England.  I knew a girl likely would not survive there in those somewhat brutal times.  And I don’t believe that in a world with so little privacy, she could successfully disguise herself as a boy for long.  She wouldn’t have access to a private bedroom or dressing rooms or bathrooms. London did have one public restroom—a plank with 18-holes, emptying directly into the Thames River.  In fact using th...

This week is a big deadline for all of my committee reading. So as I'm working my through my reading and nearing that deadline, I've decided to take a blog hiatus for the rest of this week. I'll be back next week!

I've got more hardcover to paperback changes! What do you think of these? Hardcover Paperback -I think both of these are well done and reflect the bleakness of the landscape in the story. Hardcover Paperback -As fun as I think the paperback is, I think it's marketing more to an adult audience. It looks like your typical adult mystery bestseller. The hardcover looks like lots of fun and like the book will have lots of action (which it does) Hardcover Paperback -I'm not a big fan of either covers, but I gotta got with the hardcover because it's creepier. Hardcover Paperback -I like the hardcover on this one. The paperback is too simple and I think the hardcover has a cool computer/techy/time travel feel to it which matches the book. Hardcover Paperback -The paperback for this one changes the entire look of the book! Now it looks like a steamy romance novel instead of historical fiction ...

\ \ One of the joys of working at the library is that I get to work with lots of wonderful people who geek out about the same things I do! One of my coworkers (C.) is a huge Tolkien fanatic, so she organized a giant series of programs called Tolkien Fest. \ The library district hosted programs kicking off with Bilbo's birthday in September, book discussions and a Tolkien Scholar talk in October and November and culminating in watching all three Lord of the Rings movies on the library's big screen in December. To help celebrate, I hosted a birthday party for Bilbo Baggins on World Hobbit Day (September 22, which is also Bilbo and Frodo's birthday). It was a huge program with lots of activities-we hosted it in our auditorium with various stations set up around the room. In the end, over 100 people attended the event! Here's what I did: Station 1:  - Name Tags (with your name written in dwarven runes) I used the nametags and dwarven runes from Houghton Mi...