cindy pon
a little sweet, a little sour

Category Archives: books

tgifbm! goes to france!

posting my first Thank Goodness It’s Free
Books Monday! a couple of days early in 2011!
and i’m starting the year off with a bang.
the prizes this time are two books i recently read,
both taking place in france, and both receiving five
star ratings from me on goodreads. they are very
different reads but equally fantastic!

BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is [...]

seven

this will be the fourth year i’ve ranked
my top reads of the year. you can find my
favorites from previous years on my about
page. this year, i read more books than ever
before (59) and gave many 5 star ratings. you
can see everything i read on my links page which
connects you to my goodreads ratings/reviews.
so now i [...]

choose your own tgifbm!

hello everyone! i’m afraid this week
we were fighting the stomach flu plague.
the love and munchkin brought it back from
the uk with them. (gotta love it!) the good
news is that by some minor miracle, sweet pea
and i managed not to catch it for once. the
bad news is poor munch was home sick and
all droopy for the [...]

tgifbm! all hallow’s read edition!

actually, no tricks here on halloween!
if you’re not on twitter or read neil gaiman’s blog,
then you might not have heard of All Hallow’s Read,
neil’s intention on starting a new halloween tradition–
by giving away scary books! appropriate to the lucky
person you are gifting, of course.
so i’ve got a special treat for tgifbm! this week.
a signed edition [...]

all business: ncte/alan in november

hi everyone!!
i’m finalizing my trip to orlando thanksgiving
week (sunday through tuesday) for the ncte/alan
conference and i’m so excited!!
if you are in orlando and love young adult books,
you really should consider attending. here is the
alan site. there will be at least fifty authors on panels
in one place, including ones i hope to meet like
kristin cashore and [...]