The Book Muncher: Third Edition

Name: Rachael
Blog Name/Alias: The Book Muncher
Website URL: http://thebookmuncher.blogspot.com/

Personal News:
As some of you may have undoubtedly noticed, I haven’t been blogging on YABB for…a while now. Why? Because I am so darn forgetful. Every week it works like this: Oh, Sunday’s coming, I guess I’ll write a post then. Then Sunday comes and goes and on Monday, I realize that I have forgotten to write my post. Which is why this one has been scheduled about a week in advance!

Sadly, I have limited computer access now because my computer got a virus a while ago. Thankfully it’s fine and I didn’t lose any of my files. Unfortunately, now I have practically NO internet or computer access at all.

Also, I’m doing a little promoting here for the new YA mass contributor blog called Stupid Blog Name (lovely, isn’t it?). It’s a bit similar to several other awesome YA groups blogs like Teen Fiction Café and Books, Boys, Buzz. It was started by the fabulous Michael Grant and his wife Katherine Applegate, and so far there are a lot of amazing contributors, including Meg Cabot (eek!! YA royalty!), Carol Snow (author of Switch), and The [very wonderful] Story Siren, just to name a few. Oh, and did I forget? I am also a contributor, the *only* teen one, a fact I find incredibly cool and one I won’t be able to get over for a while.

Another extremely cool thing just happened to me: my review of The Midnight Twins by Jacquelyn Mitchard (a book I reviewed for Reader Views Kids), was reposted on Reuters! (You know that huge news website?!?!?!) Well, I am beyond thrilled about that :D and I hope you’ll check it out here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/blogBurst/entertainment?bbPostId=CzAIQvvUp5TemBAbNOHE7N2nRCz7EdlIXZH4EJCzDZe7hWWWAhX

Blog News:
All my posts have been scheduled, because it just makes my life so much easier. I’ve got reviews scheduled along with a couple of interviews and RAD. My contest for The Brothers Torres has come to a close, but I should be having a couple more soon, one for Moonstone by Marilee Brothers and another one in celebration of getting 25000 hits (by now it’s almost 30000). I plan to give away some pretty amazing books that pain me to part with (okay, maybe I just want to spread these amazing stories around), which everyone can love.

I’ve just realized just how behind I am in this blog! A while ago (how long I don’t remember), The Book Muncher exceeded the 25000 mark for hits!! Trés exciting for me. My blog was also nominated, along with several others, for Best Young Adult Lit Blog during Book Blogger Appreciation Week. No, I did not win, but it was cool to make it to be a finalist nonetheless.

Reading News:
I seem to have hit sort of a reading slump, which saddens me. I’m actually reading the largest amount of books I’ve ever read at once: 4. That’s right, I usually read only one book at once. But currently, I’m reading Reflections of a Khmer Soul by Navy Phim, a memoir by a Cambodian American who survived the Khmer Rouge regime; The Skull by S.D. Tooley, a mystery about a human child’s skull; Goldengrove by Francine Prose, about a teen girl who is dealing with her sister’s death; and Amor and Summer Secrets by Diana Rodriguez Wallach, which I have just started and probably will finish first (I was also pleasantly surprised to learn my copy was signed!)

Suggested Topic: What’s your favorite book that you read this summer?
Well, I actually don’t know considering I read maybe 40 or 50 books this summer. If I had to narrow it down, my favorites (since I can never just pick one) were How to Ditch Your Fairy by Justine Larbalestier; How to Be Bad by E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle; Sisters of Misery by Megan Kelley Hall; and Beauty Shop for Rent by Laura Bowers. I bet there’s more that I’ve forgetten.