This Week at Book Riot

December 1, 2017 |

Over on Book Riot this week and last week, since I forgot to round those up…

YA books set on Mars

Great literary gifts for writers

YA books featuring coffee on the cover (for National Espresso Day, of course!).

50 excellent bookish articles from Atlas Obscura. Someone mentioned to me that this would be so useful for their social media feeds and, y’all, that’s brilliant if you’re looking.

Literary gifts for sloth lovers

I’m also really thrilled to share that the Chicago Public Library named Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World one of their best teen nonfiction titles of the year.

This Week on Book Riot (& Beyond!)

November 17, 2017 |

Over on Book Riot this week…

20 pictures of black cats with books because sometimes, you need to round up pictures of cats and books.

A round-up of YA poetry collections.

Why the male savior narrative in YA has got to go.

Great literary gifts for teachers.

A new episode of Hey YA! hit speakers this week. Eric and I talk about older YA protagonists (and y’all, there’s a trend coming), the “best of” lists as of the recording date, and some great YA online serial publications to know about.

I am beyond excited to share that School Library Journal named Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World one of their best books of 2017. Not only is that awesome (!!!) but they have a whole section of nonfiction “best of” titles. So. Damn. Cool.

This Week at Book Riot

November 10, 2017 |

I totally spaced in putting up a round-up last week, so this week’s is pretty packed. Dig in!

A friend asked if there have been any funny YA books recently, and I rattled off way more than I thought I could. So I made a post of recent funny YA books.

Excellent vintage and antique animal bookends.

A look at some of the girls in YA who are angry.

Can you figure out which are YA book quotes and which ones are lyrics from late 90s/early 00s radio hits?

Even more teens of color on YA book covers in 2018.

I may have shared this already but just incase, here are some cozy bookish sweaters to read in.

This weekend is my last weekend of yoga teacher training. Though I’ve been teaching my own class for almost a month now, I’ll be done-done, with certificate in hand. Well. Certificate-in-hand will come on the 18th, when I will be home between the NCTE conference and ALAN conference in St. Louis — I’m making that drive round-trip twice within a short time frame so I can attend.

Will you be at NCTE/ALAN? Here’s where you’ll be able to find me!

This Week at Book Riot

October 27, 2017 |

Over on Book Riot this week…

One of the hardest and most essential pieces I think I’ve ever written about the state of sexual harassment in libraries. Read it. Share it. Do something about it.

A round-up of bookish sweatshirts as we finally find fall upon us.

YA riffs on Snow White.

This Week at Book Riot

October 20, 2017 |

I’ve been taking care of a ton of business off the internet the last couple of weeks, and one of the consequences of that was forgetting to do a Book Riot round-up here last week. But never fear — it just means a bigger round-up this week:

YA novels in verse written by black authors.

Bookish gifts for those who love foxes.

This year’s bookish Hallmark ornaments.

A rainbow stack of queer YA.

20 great YA reads for older teens who are reluctant readers.

This week brought a new episode of the Hey YA! podcast. Eric and I talked about how we talk about reading YA books, about good and not-so-good “meets” pitches, and we wrap up the show recommending a bunch of horror reads. Listen in!