So… you might have noticed my absolute missingness over the last several months. Yes, missingness is now officially a word. Didn’t you get the memo from Scott? No? Here you go. Anyway, if the blog has been a little sparse of late, that’s because I’ve been uh…er…sailing around the world to raise money for starving elephants. Wait.… [Read more…]
Books That Followed Me Home This Week {March 14-21, 2011}: So, it’s been a while since I’ve done any show and tell of what’s been coming into my place on the book front. Not because I’ve stopped letting books in or anything like that (gasp!), (no matter how happy this would make my poor dad),… [Read more…]
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for this quick announcement: Guess What? On Thursday Jonesy and I were featured in Better Know a Blogger over at For What It’s Worth as part of the fun of February and the Ultimate Reviewer’s Challenge. Thanks to Karen for the interview. We know you are curious to know… [Read more…]
Congratulations to the Winners in our Valentine’s Day {Books With Love} Hop Giveaway! After a few hours hunched over a spreadsheet and the latent realization that a GOOGLE form might have been a better option, we are excited to announce the winners of our first ever giveaway here at Aurelia {Lit}! Thank you to everyone… [Read more…]
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that Aurelia is, as of today, a two-person team. The fabulous Miss Leslie Jones, (aka Jonesy) has agreed to climb aboard this roller-coaster ride of a blog and join forces with me to be able to bring you even more book-centric awesomeness. Please join me in welcoming Leslie to… [Read more…]
Aurelia will be participating in the 2011 Debut Author Challenge. What does that mean? We’ll be reading (and of course reviewing) a minimum of twelve titles from authors making their Young Adult or Middle Grade debuts in the coming year. Why? Because we have some passion for finding and promoting great debut authors in the… [Read more…]
Pardon our dust as we do some much needed site maintenance in preparation for a MASSIVE REVIEW UPDATE! Here’s just a sampling of the books we’ll be reviewing in the coming weeks: Pretties by Scott Westerfeld Idlewild by Nick Sagan Gone by Michael Grant The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman I am the Messenger by… [Read more…]
September 19, 2011 by Bex
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