The Book Brats Holiday Gift Guide
Ah, the holidays – a time for family, food, festivity, and falling asleep. It’s also a time for gifts, either for you or those you love and care about. So we’ve put together a little list of books and...
View ArticleMarla’s Top Ten Snowy Day Reads
Even though I live in the south, I still look forward to snowy days. They may be rare, but there’s just something about how quiet the world gets and the color of the sky that puts me in a cozy mood....
View ArticleThe Bratty Awards 2013 – Megan Edition
Welcome to part one of The Bratty Awards, where the Book Brats team picks their favorite reads of 2013, and then demands you go and buy them. First up is Megan (aka me), and I have some strange choices...
View ArticleMarla’s Top 10 Most Anticipated Books of 2014
Welcome to a shiny new year at Book Brats. Megan and I are both sick, so today’s post is going to be just for fun. I’m sure you’ve seen several like it, in fact, but it’s a good question for all...
View ArticleMegan’s Drunken 2014 Bookish Wishes
If you were following along on New Year’s Eve to my Twitter account, you might have noticed my drunken haze and my 2014 Bookish Wish List. And then I said, “What the hell, I’ll just repost them to the...
View ArticleAn Oscars Reading List
With awards season upon us in Hollywood, many people (ahem… me included) will take away some of their reading time to throw it straight at watching as many of the nominees as possible. So far, I’ve...
View ArticleI Broke My Blogging Brain: My Top Time Wasters for When I Just Can’t Write
This has been happening a lot lately. I sit down to write a post or a review, and then it happens: crickets. My brain rebels and I’m left staring at a blank post editor window, wondering how it is I...
View ArticleDystopian is Dead: The Next Big Genres in YA
The other day, I had a discussion with a friend about the so-called death of dystopian fiction. This in itself is a misnomer – the YA definition of dystopian has always been skewed in favor of...
View ArticleThe Book Problem
I was recently sitting here at my computer, shopping under the influence of codeine cough syrup, adding books absently to my Amazon cart on the basis of how cute they would look on my shelves. It...
View ArticleUsed and Abused: The Rise of Domestic Un-Bliss in New Adult Fiction
Originally posted February 7th, 2014 to Bibliodaze. It’s not hard to go onto Amazon these days and find New Adult soaring up the best-seller list. Titles such as Ignite and Raw, along with very sexy...
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