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Monday, October 28, 2013 6:26:31 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature’s Undead by Rebecca L. Johnson:
Jolene said, "This is one of those books filled with so much fascinating yet disgusting information that you can’t help but read parts out loud to other people so they can be grossed out right along with you. Or maybe that’s just me. Because I started..." more
Monday, June 24, 2013 11:01:49 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen:
Jolene said, "I’ve neglected to cross-post my last few reviews for Guys Lit Wire (Bomb by Sheinkin and Sumo by Pham, if you’re interested), but Spillover. Oh my god, this book was awesome and I loved it. If I’d read it when it came out last..." more
Monday, June 10, 2013 3:03:40 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled Final stats for the #48hbc:
Jolene said, "I finished up my 48 hours by listening to a couple chapters (roughly 1 hour 14 minutes worth) of The Exiled Queen audiobook by Cinda Williams Chima. Total reading + listening time: 15 hours 11 minutes Total blogging time: 2 hours 25 minutes Pages..." more
Monday, June 10, 2013 12:21:40 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled Less than two hours left in the #48hbc:
Jolene said, "My Beloved Brontosaurus, concluded As I said earlier, I’m not interested in dinosaurs. A few hours ago, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you much more than Tyrannosaurus had short arms, Triceratops had horns, Archeopteryx had feathers,..." more
Sunday, June 9, 2013 8:45:39 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled #48hbc update 2: Science!:
Jolene said, "I was very indecisive this evening and could not decide what book to read. I picked up Martha Wells’ Emilie & the Hollow World but wasn’t feeling it, so put it down after reading the first chapter. Maybe I’ll get back to it..." more
Saturday, June 8, 2013 8:51:37 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled A #48hbc update: two books completed:
Jolene said, "I think my book reviewing muscles are out of shape, so back to the bullet points. This Is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith The book in brief: an email accidentally sent to the wrong address sparks a relationship between two strangers...." more
Saturday, June 8, 2013 1:15:44 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled Back to blogging for the #48hbc:
Jolene said, "I know, I haven’t been around the blogosphere much this year. But it’s 48 Hour Book Challenge time, which is always a lot of fun. Although I do have to work on Saturday, which I haven’t had to do the previous times I participated,..." more
Monday, January 28, 2013 4:22:03 PM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled WOW!:
Jolene said, "That’s my one-word summary of this morning’s ALA Youth Media Award announcements. Who cares if more than half of my predictions were wrong? The sheer number of surprises (not to mention, completely unknown titles) in this year’s..." more
Saturday, January 26, 2013 9:17:58 PM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled It’s Youth Media Awards prediction time!:
Jolene said, "Last year, my predictions were mostly wrong. We’ll see if I do better this year. The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature So, Code Name Verity: you are a complex, beautifully written novel, outstanding in story,..." more
Sunday, January 13, 2013 7:22:00 PM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled A belated* list of my notable reads of 2012:
Jolene said, "* because I thought I scheduled this post to publish earlier, but I guess not. As you can probably tell by the lack of posts, I’ve been in a major reading—and blogging—slump for most of this year. Well, to be more specific, the reading..." more
Sunday, January 13, 2013 7:22:00 PM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled On my must-read books of 2013: Christa Desir’s Fault Line:
Jolene said, "From On Steubenville and where we go from here… (Trigger warning) Months later, I was speaking about this experience and one of the guys in the audience came up to me afterwards and said he was a high school teacher and he was quite certain..." more
Monday, December 24, 2012 8:37:17 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled The Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity by Elizabeth Rusch:
Jolene said, "More than eight years before the Curiosity rover landed in Gale Crater, two rovers named Spirit and Opportunity landed on opposite sides of Mars. While previous NASA missions to Mars, such as the Viking landers, had carried scientific instruments,..." more
Monday, September 24, 2012 11:51:22 PM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson:
Jolene said, "Here are the numbers: 2,208 people were on board the RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage of these, 891 were crew members and 1,317 were passengers yet she carried just 20 lifeboats that could have held a total of 1,178 people she sank, after hitting..." more
Thursday, August 30, 2012 5:21:22 PM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Y. Levinson:
Jolene said, "As Cynthia Levinson notes in We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March, Segregation in Birmingham wasn’t just a way of life. It was the law. The city’s Racial Segregation Ordinances, adopted in 1951, demanded..." more
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 7:04:29 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga:
Jolene said, "No one in the town of Lobo’s Nod wants to believe that the dead girl in the field was the victim of a serial killer. Jazz knows better. Spying on the cops and crime scene tech gathering evidence, his father’s words echo in Jazz’s..." more
Monday, July 16, 2012 2:38:40 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled Me! Recommending books!:
Jolene said, "Stacked has been running an awesome So You Want to Read YA series over the last couple of months, with bloggers, authors, and editors writing about the books they’d recommend to readers who are unfamiliar with YA fiction. (Did you see that..." more
Thursday, July 5, 2012 8:11:22 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan:
Jolene said, "I should probably preface this review by saying that A Girl Named Digit is basically a YA spy thriller with a female lead, and I’m a sucker for those. But even though I’ll automatically pick up this kind of book, I tend to be extremely..." more
Monday, June 25, 2012 5:01:18 PM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled Listen Up:
Jolene said, "Heard any good audiobooks recently? I didn’t listen to audiobooks when I was a teen, back when they were only available on cassette tapes or CDs. Technology has changed since then, and now there is also much more variety in terms of titles..." more
Friday, June 15, 2012 10:56:07 PM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled Summer Blog Blast Tour 2012 wrapup:
Jolene said, "Monday Kate Milford @ Chasing Ray Randa Abdel-Fattah @ Crazy QuiltEdi Tim Lebbon @ Bildungsroman Nalo Hopkinson @ TheHappyNappyBookseller Tuesday Timothy Decker @ Chasing Ray Y. S. Lee here Tanita Davis @ TheHappyNappyBookseller Wednesday Cynthia..." more
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 5:50:50 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled Why I’m a fan of The Agency series by Y. S. Lee:
Jolene said, "I read and reviewed the first book Y. S. Lee’s The Agency series, A Spy in the House, when it came out a couple of years ago, but never got around to discussing its sequels, The Body at the Tower and the recently published The Traitor in the..." more
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 5:50:50 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled Summer Blog Blast Tour: Y. S. Lee:
Jolene said, "Y.S. Lee is the author of the Mary Quinn historical mystery series. The books skilfully blend historical detail, feminism, mystery, romance, and more. Needless to say, I’m quite the fan. So I was pleased to be able to interview Ying and ask..." more
Monday, June 11, 2012 7:22:46 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled 48 Hour Book Challenge final stats:
Jolene said, "Since my last update, I finished Kelley Armstrong’s The Calling (The Gathering, book 2), which was…very like the first book in the series, and also very second-book-in-a-series. Even as I read The Calling, I realized that nothing much..." more
Sunday, June 10, 2012 4:54:28 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled 48 Hour Book Challenge, day one recap:
Jolene said, "Read and wrote about Quiet by Susan Cain Cat Girl’s Day Off by Kimberly Pauley Also finished reading Enchanted by Alethea Kontis Fake Mustache by Tom Angleberger (a middle-grade break from the YA—amusing, but I won’t be reviewing..." more
Sunday, June 10, 2012 1:48:24 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled One book completed (and you should read this one, too):
Jolene said, "This isn’t a review as much as it is a brief exhortation to read Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain regardless of whether you consider yourself an introvert or extrovert. For all the..." more
Monday, June 23, 2014 11:17:58 AM
Jolene M. wrote a blog post titled Getting ready for ALA + a couple of reviews:
Jolene said, "It’s been ages since I last blogged here so I’m not sure how many people will read this, but a couple of updates: I’ll be at the ALA annual conference this weekend. If you’re also attending, let me know so we can..." more