Giveaway Announcement! Win a Contemporary YA Prize Pack!

In many of our videos, Michaela and I have been hinting at doing a giveaway soon. SURPRISE! In honor of our very first joint review–and Michaela’s new job at Barnes and Noble, which is allowing her to host this giveaway–we’re giving away a prize pack of three contemporary novels!

If you missed it, me and Michaela’s first joint review was of John Green’s Paper Towns. In that vein, Michaela is graciously providing for this beautiful set of books:

That’s:

• Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle
• Endless Summer by by Jennifer Echols
• House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni (okay, this isn’t technically a YA contemporary, but it’s Michaela’s version of the same…)

This giveaway ends March 5th and is US only. Sorry!

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Weekly Wrap Up + What We Read 1/31/16

It goes without saying that we are BACK with another weekly wrap up with what we read! Besides all our great posts, Michaela also out-read me by about 200%–though I do give you a sneak peek at a recent ARC I read!

Monday:

• Gretchen’s Favorite Books to Re-Read
• Michaela’s Response to The Art of the Asshole

Tuesday:

• Betwixt the Books Review: Paper Towns by John Green

Wednesday:

• Gretchen’s Worth It Wednesday: Splintered by AG Howard
• Michaela’s Review of Low Vol 1

Thursday:

• Gretchen’s Thesis Thursday: Why I Can’t Finish Writing My Novel

Friday:

• Gretchen’s Review of The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresun
• Micheala’s Review of Alternate by Ernie Luis

Saturday:

• Michaela’s Book and Movie Review of Carol by Patricia Highsmith

Betwixt the Books Review: “Paper Towns” by John Green

Look who’s here for our first joint video review! Today, Michaela and I are discussing Paper Towns by John Green! It also happened to work for our PopSugar challenge, though for different sections!

Paper Towns by John Green

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Who is the real Margo?

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew…

My overall rating: 3 stars | Michaela’s overall rating: 3 stars

In Defense of YA: We Need a Rebellion of Our Own

I promised myself a while ago–like, when I started this blog ago–that I would never write a response blog post. I have never wanted to get caught up in any drama. Lord, the drama on the internet, am I right? But two things have happened in such quick succession that I am finally using this blog to say some things.

The first was during the episode of my book club, Bibliomancy for Beginners, that aired last Tuesday. Head over to this link and watch the last six minutes or so. Starting at about 1:04:00 I just … blow up. Seriously. I scare my co-Bibliomancers. Because enough of them have taken enough jabs at the YA genre over the three years that we’ve been doing this that I just broke. (Warning: I say some choice things about John Green. While I stand by my opinion, I recognize that this is my opinion and not some cosmic rule.) So I start shouting in defense of it. Enjoy.