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Thursday, November 11, 2010

We are chatting about Linger TONIGHT with Maggie Stiefvater!


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*Please know that we will be discussing Linger with Magie Stiefvater!!

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*Thank you and we look forward to chatting with everyone tonight!

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Beauitiful Darkness Blog Tour!



We are very excited to be apart of the Beautiful Darkness Novel Noise Blog tour! Beautiful Darkness is one of my favorite reads for 2010! Last month we had the oppturnity to spend some time with Kami and Margie when they were in town for their Beautiful Darkness Tour, which we co-hosted at Book People and at The Twig in San Antonio. You can find our personal interview with them here http://tinyurl.com/2cad26c.

(Jennifer Dee, Kami, myself, Margie)

You can also read our transcript from our October 26th chat with Kami and Margie here http://tinyurl.com/26cajsx. During our spoiler free chat, we talked a lot about Beautiful Darkness, the new character, John Breed, and we dug a little bit deeper into the Caster world.

Here's a synpopsis of Beautiful Darkness, along with part of my 5 star review:
Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.

Sometimes life-ending.

Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems. (quoted from Goodreads)

I absolutely loved returning to Gatlin County in Beautiful Darkness. The cover sets the perfect tone for what is revealed within it's pages. It's beautiful, haunting, twisty and I found myself a lot more emotionally invested in this wondeful sequel.

Kami & Margie have this unique talent for making me feel like I'm apart of Ethan and Lena's world. Whether that be searching the Castor tunnels, in the caves and the forest that are apart of Gatlin county, the Caster world in which Ethan is introduced to, the Gatlin Library or at their homes. No matter where the setting took me too, I felt I was there. The descriptions are so rich in detail and so vivid, that I'm completely swept up into the pages of Beautiful Darkness, more so than I was with Beautiful Creatures.

You can read more of my review here http://tinyurl.com/2vqu4vd

Beautiful Darkness was released on October 12th, by Little Brown, and you can pick up your copy at any store near you and any local Indie store near you! Don't forget, you can also pick up your copy of Beautiful Creatures, which is now out in paperback.

(Photo credit to Vania Stoyanova)

You can learn more about Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl and the Caster Chronicles, by visiting their sites here at BeautifulCreaturestheBook.com. You can join the fansite of our affiliates, Caster Girls & Boys, which keeps up with all the latest news, host giveaways and whole lot more at CasterGirls.com. Don't forget to to visit Little Brown's site, SomeLovesAreCursed.com to read excerpts, get some great down loads, see the map of Gatlin county and more.

GIVEAWAY!!!
Don't forget to go here http://tinyurl.com/2cad26c to enter to WIN a SIGNED ARC of Beautiful Darkness, some other signed swag and lots of cool Beautiful Darkness swag!!

Thoughtful Thursday-Veteran's Day

Today our Thoughtful Thursday falls on Veteran's Day. Today we'd like to take a moment of silence to honor and thank the over 25 million veterans who serve our country. THANK YOU to those who are serving our country, protecting our freedoms and making huge sacrifices for us.


Here's a brief history about Veteran's Day:

Veterans Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, was originally set as a U.S. legal holiday to honor the end of World War I, which officially took place on November 11, 1918. In legislation that was passed in 1938, November 11 was "dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be hereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day.'" As such, this new legal holiday honored World War I veterans.

In 1954, after having been through both World War II and the Korean War, the 83rd U.S. Congress -- at the urging of the veterans service organizations -- amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word "Armistice" and inserting the word "Veterans." With the approval of this legislation on June 1, 1954, Nov. 11 became a day to honor American veterans of all wars. (quoted from Military.com's site).

I learned something new today, as the United States Senate Resolution 143, which was passed on August 4, 2001, designated the week of November 11 through November 17, 2001, as "National Veterans Awareness Week." The resolution calls for educational efforts directed at elementary and secondary school students concerning the contributions and sacrifices of veterans. (quoted from Military.com's site).

You can find a lot of great information about Veterans Day and a lot more by visiting http://www.military.com/veterans-day/

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