October means mellowcreme pumpkins, finding five bucks in the pocket of last year’s coat (and spending it on more mellowcreme pumpkins), and BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS! From the first fantasy YA of a favorite author to a Gilded Age thriller to retellings of “The Wild Swans” and the Orpheus myth, here are 20 of the month’s most exciting […]
I’ll admit it: I’ve got a slight obsession with fairy tales. One of the main reasons I read YA (besides it being AWESOME) is for all of the clever fairy tale retellings. Still, with every true love comes an almost-insurmountable challenge, and mine is finding retellings that aren’t all based on Cinderella—there are a million brilliant ways to […]
If your internet happens to break today under the sheer weight of new-book awesomeness, consider it the perfect excuse to take a break from the outside world and get to reading. Today marks the birth of Rainbow Rowell’s glorious first fantasy YA, a lush Thousand and One Nights retelling from E.K. Johnston, Stephenie Meyer’s gender-bent Twilight […]
As someone who anxiously awaits new episodes of The Expanse (yes, yes, I know I should also read the books) and new Star Wars movies, and inhales Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series and the Saga graphic novels from Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples, I am forever eager for more in the space opera genre. […]