Series Binge-Read: The Arcana Chronicles – Arcana Rising

Arcana Chronicles fans, rejoice! The fourth book in the series, Arcana Rising, is on sale today. I don’t know about you, but I love when I get the chance to binge-read a series. I read the first Arcana Chronicles book, Poison Princess, a few years back and enjoyed it but got behind in my series […]

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Giveaway: The Remedy by Suzanne Young and $25 Sephora Gift Card

THE REMEDY by Suzanne Young is on sale now! This book is a prequel companion to THE PROGRAM duology and fills in the blanks of how things came to be. Find out more about the book and make sure to enter the Simon & Schuster giveaway for a Become a Closer prize pack including a copy of […]

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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Book Review

I’m very pleased to welcome Andrew to the blog today with a special guest book review. You may know him from his Movie Date posts, but he wanted to share his thoughts on a book that’s getting a lot of buzz: National Book Award finalist Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Make sure to leave him some reading […]

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Still Point by Katie Kacvinsky Review and Author Q&A

In the Awaken trilogy we see a near-future world that’s taken a good thing (technology) too far. Students spend all their time online, and even attend an all Digital School (DS). Teens have little face-to-face interaction anymore, and when friends get together they still have their heads down in their various devices. (Welcome to my […]

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Blog Tour: Guardian (Proxy #2) by Alex London

Today I’m pleased to take part in the GUARDIAN blog tour! GUARDIAN is the sequel to last year’s PROXY, a book that really made an impression on me. It’s kind of a futuristic update of The Whipping Boy, and features a diverse cast of characters including a protagonist who is a gay POC. You know […]

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The Movie Date: Ender’s Game

The Movie Date is a weekly feature where we discuss movies that may appeal to YA readers. Andrew is The Reading Date’s resident movie critic and this week he discusses Ender’s Game, directed by Gavin Hood, based on the novel by Orson Scott Card. When the film of Ender’s Game finally opened last year, there was quite […]

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