Tag: hunger games

Science Fiction and Paranormal Fantasy with a Noir Twist

On Romance in YA Plots (and why I’m not the target audience)

A recent Amazon review of The Girl at the End of the World noted that the book is a strong example of Post-Apocalyptic YA that doesn’t focus on romance. While there is a bit of romance in the book, I tried not to make it be about that–just one of the many things that happens…
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March 23, 2015 0

I’ve Listened to the Audiobook–Can I Say I’ve Read It?

I’ll think of this as the summer I became an audiobook convert. I had never really had anything against audiobooks before, but had  just thought of them as “not my thing.” Years ago, while studying for the GRE in literature, I remember listening to cassettes (I did say “years ago,” remember?) of George Bernard Shaw…
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September 3, 2012 0