Happy Book Birthday!!

There is nothing Kelly and Laura love more than new books! Happy Book Birthday to these amazing books that we love/can't wait to read!

BECAUSE IT IS MY BLOOD by Gabrielle Zevin

     The follow-up of ALL THE THINGS I'VE DONE is finally here! We picked it up at BEA '12 and love Gabrielle Zevin! 

BURN FOR BURN by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian 

      This book was a hot BEA '12 book, missed by Laura and Kelly. But three girls after revenge? Nothing could bring us more joy! Burn for Burn is by two amazing authors and is sure to be a great read. 

NECROMANCING THE STONE by Lish McBride

      The sequel release to HOLD ME CLOSER, NECROMACER! Laura was lucky enough to get her hands on an ARC of this book, and it is a glorious mix of hilarity and soul-crushing terror. Poor Sam never gets a break. Unless shattered bones count...

TEN by Gretchen McNeil

       No electricity, no phones, no internet, and no ferry? A house-party gone bad is just the start of this horror YA novel. 

THE CROWN OF EMBERS by Rae Carson

       The Girl of Fire and Thorns series continues! Elisa may have been a hero when she saved her people from a horrible sorcerous army, but now she must follow a trail of long forgotten and forbidden clues in a quest to save her people from a threat that is far greater than she could have realized. Plus there is Hector, and he is swoonworthy. Laura adored this book and can't wait for you to read it so she can talk about it!

WHAT'S LEFT OF ME by Kat Zhang

       Yay! A debut author who was buzzed like crazy at BEA, for good reason! Laura loved this book and can't wait for the next installment. Kat is so sweet and she's still in college! Congratulations!

THE RAVEN BOYS by Maggie Stiefvater

       Another amazing book by Maggie. She's a writing machine and we got the chance to meet her at BEA '12! This book blew Laura away! Blue Sargent has known her whole life that she will kill her true love, and then she meets Gansey, and THE CREEPY AWESOMENESS HAPPENS. Really, you have to read it.

THE DIVINERS by Libba Bray

        Four young adults are blessed with powers in 1920's NYC. Libba's new book is thriller + historial fiction with a dash of paranormal. At close to 600 pages, Laura couldn't have dreamed of a better book. Come back tomorrow to see our discussion! 

Which books are you going to read? Tell us in the comments below! 

The NEW Magic Hoodie Literary Society

First of all, we want to apologize for another gap in our blog. We appreciate all of our followers and readers, but the fact is, it’s hard to keep up a blog, go to work, go to school, go to internships, apply to grad school *and* have a social life. For this, we are forever sorry we do not have infinite amounts of time to devote to this blog.

As you all know, earlier this year Bailey and Kenzie left the blog for personal reasons. This brought our “staff” down to two, Laura and Kelly. We realized we would need to take on more work, and during BEA ‘12 we discussed the future of the Magic Hoodie Literary Society.

We knew that we did not want to end MHLit. We love it and we love you. We love what we do. Second of all, we wanted to turn it into more of a literary society, not just a review blog. That means numerous things. While you will still see reviews of YA books, you’re also going to see SO much more.

There’s going to be Waiting on Wednesday, In My Mailbox, Book Boyfriends, Best Of lists, interviews with our favorite authors, contests [hopefully], and a new recurring post that Kelly will start THIS Friday.

Laura and Kelly are VERY excited for the new chapter of MHLit. We are open to new ideas and if something we do stinks, tell us. We want to make it more of a literary society where YOU are included in the conversation. PLEASE leave us comments down below and if you would like to be a guest reviewer or blogger, don’t hesitate to ask!

We’re gonna get the ball rolling with a joint review of THE DIVINERS by Libba Bray on Wednesday [hopefully, if Kelly can read fast enough]! The Diviners is out TOMORROW, so don’t forget to buy yourself a copy!  

BEA Love! - Day One

Hello from NYC!

We've been having a fabulous time together! There has been talk of the future of MHLit, books, twindom, and so much more. If you go onto Kelly's blog or Laura's blog [click over there. on your right!], you can see our adventures from yesterday.

Today, we are slightly exhausted and really just want to sleep.

And sleep should happen.

Really. It should.

But it won't.

Not until we tell you our favourite pick ups of the day!

KELLY:

Matched, by Ally Condie.
The Diviners, by Libba Bray
Out of Easy, by Ruta Sepetys
Because It Is My, by Gabrielle Zevin


LAURA:

I have to pick one?

The Diviners, by Libba Bray
Out of Easy, by Ruta Sepetys
12.21, by Dustin Thompson.
The Raven Boys, by Maggie Stiefvater



It would make sense that twins would pick two of the same books. Because we are twins. We OBVIOUSLY got lots of other books that you will hear about soon, especially here, but for now, we're sleeping.



Kelly's BEA book count: 24
Laura's BEA book count: 24