Rest in Peace, Bill Hinzman

Ag2218/ March 1, 2012

Zombie Thursdays is a weekly feature with guest blogger, Miranda. You can read more about her here. Writer’s Block. Terrible, horrible writer’s block. I’ve been plagued for weeks. Have you ever had so much stuff going on in your mind that you feel like you creatively have room for no more stuff? That’s how I felt all last month. I’m

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Best Book of February

/ February 29, 2012

Every Wednesday, YA Highway asks their readership a simple question to answer on your blog. Once you answer, you link your blog in the comments for other readers to hop on board. This is Road Trip Wednesday. Today’s topic: What was the best book you read in February? I didn’t have many books to choose from this month and I

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MARCHing Forward

/ February 28, 2012

Yep, that is a horrible pun for the fact we’re approaching March* and I don’t care. The last several months for yours truly has epically been made of suck and I’m looking forward to all the things that happen once March 1 arrives. I just need to make it through one extra day of February**. Since blogging at The Pie

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YA Book Club: The Fault in Our Stars

/ February 24, 2012

This month’s selection for the YA Book Club was John’s Green’s The Fault in Our Stars.When I found this out, I twitter-yelled at YA Book Club’s brainchild, Tracey Neithercott. That conversation sounded a lot like this: Me: Why are you making this happen NOW? I’d like to get through a month without crying.Tracey: I wish I could send tissues through

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Giraffe Love

/ February 22, 2012

As a kid, I didn’t have an imaginary friend. I had an imaginary GIRAFFE. This unnamed giraffe would be my scapegoat whenever I did something I shouldn’t. (Which honestly, wasn’t that often. I was a well-behaved rugrat.) The giraffe got stuck in the back seat of my dad’s boat of a car whenever we schlepped to Connecticut to visit the

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