Before We Kick It

/ March 12, 2011

First off, thanks to Mo for hosting this blogfest. As it’s still March 11th over here, we’re not late. (PS: If you’re new, you should enter our contest.) The “Bucket List” blogfest is all about things you want to do before you die. Things you want to do before you kick the bucket. Things Miranda Wants to do Before She

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Zombies Face Off in a Dance of the Dead

Ag2218/ March 10, 2011

Zombie Thursdays is a weekly feature with guest blogger, Miranda. You can read more about her here. I’m not a fan of reality television shows. I find them to be completely unrealistic, even the “competition” shows. Producers constantly set the outcome of who stays and who goes. Let’s face it– you can’t send home the bitch on the show in

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In Which We Peek into High School Alicia’s Brain

/ March 9, 2011

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. First, a big hello to everyone new in The Lurkdom. Please comment often. Second, a big thanks to Lauren Kaycee for our fancy

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Book Review – Divergent

/ March 8, 2011

credit Last week I won an ARC of Divergent through Goodreads. I did a dance of joy when I saw the Harper Collins mailer on my front porch last night. Happy Monday to me. What’s that about?Blurb from Goodreads: In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the

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Name the Beastie Challenge Winner

/ March 7, 2011

Thanks to all who participated in the Name the Beastie Challenge. There were some good suggestions out there, but, like Highlander, there can be only one. Congrats to Tracey Neithercott! My little bug-like guy is now known as a coleptra. If you like winning fun stuff, you should enter The Pie’s Race to 150 contest. We’ve added some new prizes

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