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[kelcrocker]

Show us your #TBR pile on Twitter or Instagram using #TBR #IreadYA #Entry for a chance to win an #IreadYA prize pack!

[kelcrocker]

Tell us why you love YA on Twitter using #IreadYA #Entry for a chance to win an #IreadYA prize pack!

[kelcrocker]

So many #YAbooks so little time - #IReadYA, do you? Today marks the last challenge #IReadYA challenge so here it is: Share with your top book recommendation and you could win an #IReadYA prize pack! This could be a book from your TBR list, or just one you can't stop raving about - share with your top pick! #contest

[kelcrocker]

S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders when she was a teen. I first read it as a teen and have read it many more times. This is my reaction to it. As you can see, 1) I'm not an artist (though this is an uncanny likeness of me) and 2) I am not a filmmaker. (Just turn your phone to see me right side up!) I do 💜💜💜💜💜 YA! Cheers!

[ireadyabooks]

[kelcrocker]

Katniss kills for kid sis--and kisses. #IReadYA #bookstagram #Alliteration challenge

[kelcrocker]

#IReadYA week from @This_Is_Teen is all about celebrating the #books I love! Complete today's challenge and be automatically entered to win an #IReadYA prize pack. Winners & new challenges will be announced daily #yabooks #contest

[kelcrocker]

Of course #IReadYA. Still unpacking from the move, but here are a few faves by Sarah Aronson, Mary E. Pearson, Jandy Nelson, Lauren Myracle, Stephanie Perkins, Chris Crutcher and Melanie Crowder (@melanieacrowder). @thisisteen #bookstagram

[kelcrocker]

Hell, yeah, #IReadYA! Because: some of the best, most innovative writing out there! #IReadYA #contest

[diversityinya]

Next year, I’m going to be conscious, intentional, and critical about the books I choose to buy and read. Because I like measurable goals (and because I think vague “try harder” goals are fairly worthless for me), I’m going to ensure that at least 50% of the books I read next year are written by POC. And I’m going to talk about those books, to rate and review them, to share them with others. … It is important to learn about and talk about the wider systemic, institutional problems with racism in publishing and society in general. But I cannot be an ally without examining how my own personal choices are reinforcing the oppression I profess to oppose, and then changing those behaviors.

Kayla Whaley, “On Privilege and (a Lack of) Diversity on My Bookshelves” (via diversityinya)

[elanajohnson]

The cover of my new YA novel, ELEVATED, coming to an eReader near you on February 18, 2014! Reblog for a chance to win $15 PayPal cash — enter in the widget here: http://elanajohnson.blogspot.com/2014/01/elevated-cover-reveal.html

[amiwithani]

My brother’s pretty good at this whole ‘Christmas gifts’ thing

[kelcrocker]

Love this

[jasonashlock]

- More than 200,000 exclusive books were added to the Kindle store in 2013. - 150 Kindle Direct Publishing authors each sold more than 100,000 copies of their books in 2013. - Kindle Direct Publishing authors sold hundreds of thousands of books in November through the new Kindle Countdown Deals.

A few data points, among a multitude released by Amazon today in their annual holiday press release, measuring the pace of self-publishing’s forward march.  (via jasonashlock)

[winemamyte-deactivated20210422]

Poems for $.50 in a small bookstore in San Francisco 

[bloody-men-with-blue-eyes]

[hiddlesninjas]

ehehehehehe perfect

[kelcrocker]

Love

[autumnbookgirl]

Just got these babies! 

Can’t wait to read them! 

[kelcrocker]

Loved both of these!

[strandbooks]

The holidays can be a depressing time. Everybody knows this. But knowing something—simply recognizing it—does not necessarily solve the problem … what we’ve always found helps relieve our misery is, well, company. But not company like other real-life people. No, company like other people in books.

From ”5 Depressing Pieces of Literature About Dysfunctional Families to Get You Through the Holidays” via Brooklyn Magazine.

See also, Desperate Characters by Paula Fox… and, well, nearly every other book I’ve ever read. What are your picks?

(via strandbooks)

The Middlesteins might also be great this time of year, especially if your family fights about food.

(via nprbooks)

[revnaomiking]

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human  (via fleurstains)