Today marks the end of May — and the end of our May Book of the Month, featuring the Sucks to Be Me series by Kimberly Pauley. We’ve had so much fun featuring this whimsical, coming of age vampire stories — and getting to explore other vampire stories & legends, plus finding ways to incorporate [...]
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Rick Riordan’s The Red Pyramid holds the top spot for the third week in a row onThe New York Times best sellers list, followed by The Carrie Diaries — now in its fourth week — by Candace Bushnell. And it’s clear that readers are gearing up for Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay by reading the first two books [...]
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Just a quick reminder, folks — tomorrow is your last day to enter our Sucks to Be Me contest! Three winners will get a set of hardback copies of Sucks to Be Me and Still Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley — and Kimberly has just told us she’ll send signed bookplates, temporary tattoos [...]
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Recently, Novel Novice was featured on a couple of local news programs here in Portland — and here’s the video: (Okay, yes, this is from the TV station where I work — but I promise you, Stephanie — the reporter — put this piece together without my influence. Special thanks to Darryl M. for converting [...]
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It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for … yes, we’re announcing the winners of our Linger ARC giveaway! Drumroll … Rivkie R. is the winner of a Linger ARC In second place … Ana M. is the winner of Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater (Winners, check your email this weekend for details on claiming your [...]
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This week at Book Expo America, Scholastic hosted a cocktail party in honor of Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games trilogy, and the upcoming final installment, Mockingjay. While there, MTV talked to producers at Lionsgate and got the latest scoop on The Hunger Games movie adaptation: They said Suzanne had given them her draft of the [...]
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After checking out the offerings at Book Expo America this week, MTV sat down to consider which books could become the “next Twilight.” And while we cringe that this phrase — really, what they’re talking about is what’s going to be the next big thing in book to movie adaptations — we think they’ve picked [...]
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We love reading here at Novel Novice, but let’s face it: reading is way more fun when your friends read, too — and then ya’ll can get together and geek out over your favorite books! Here are some fun activities you can do together for our May Book of the Month, the Sucks to Be [...]
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Recently, our own Ms. Truitt wrote a review of Jekel Loves Hyde, the new book by Beth Fantaskey. The book sounded so good, I quickly headed to the bookstore to pick it up — where I discovered Fantaskey’s previous novel, Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side. And being the “sucker” that I am [...]
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Earlier this week, we shared some other vampire books worth reading, in honor of our May Book of the Month, the Sucks to Be Me series by Kimberly Pauley. Today, we’re featuring some of our favorite vampire movies worth watching! (And no, I’m not including Twilight or New Moon, because — let’s face it — [...]
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