Kate Spofford, author

Category: young adult

  • July reading round-up

    # of books read: 15 audiobooks listened to: 3 graphic novels read: 2 total page count: 4,402 year total page count: 28,874 This was a crazy month, and despite having a week of vacation, it wasn’t exactly *restful* vacation.  Plus with all the running around for the summer reading program at my library, and planning for…

  • June reading round-up

    # of books read: 16 audiobooks listened to: 2 graphic novels read: 8 total page count: 4,395 year total page count: 24,472 A large portion of my month was spent reading 2 books by Cassandra Clare. View this post on Instagram The first was Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, which I picked up mainly because I’ve…

  • May reading round-up

    # of books read: 21 audiobooks listened to: 5 ARCs read: 1 total page count: 4,538 year total page count: 20,077 I managed to get tons of reading done this month!  My favorite reads of the month were Bang by Barry Lyga (about a boy who shot and killed his younger sister when he was a toddler),…

  • March reading round-up

    # of books read: 14 audiobooks listened to: 3 ebooks read: 3 books from the Throne of Glass series: 2 graphic novels: 3 total page count: 3,998 year total page count: 12,251 Well, I still haven’t beat that crazy reading streak I had in January.  It does seem that I’m reading roughly 4,000 pages a month,…

  • February reading round-up

    # of books read: 17 audiobooks listened to: 3 ebooks read: 6 ARCs read: 2 books from the Throne of Glass series: 2 graphic novels: 4 total page count: 3,877 year total page count: 8,253 Well, not so many books read as last month, but a lot of that has to do with February being 3 days shorter…

  • my top 10 werewolf books*

    *that I didn’t write Books about werewolves have a huge advantage over werewolf movies: they don’t have to deal with special effects, which means they can be great without needing a big budget.  That being said, there are a lot of cheesy werewolf books out there (and many of them are in the romance genre…).…

  • January reading round-up

    # of books read: 20 audiobooks listened to: 5 ebooks read: 6 nonfiction read: 2 ARCs read: 1 books from the Experiment in Terror series: 4 books from the White Cat series: 3 vintage YA: 3 total page count: 4,376 I did a ton of reading this month. In newer releases, I finished up Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at…

  • 3 on a theme: brotherly (and sisterly) love

    3 on a theme: brotherly (and sisterly) love

    I am often reading between 3 and 5 books at the same time, and occasionally there’s a theme that might not be remarkable in one book… but when I see it in three books, I take notice. I’ve become accustomed to YA books that heavily rely on romance.  So YA books that do not have…

  • 3 books on a theme: brothers who died in the war

    I am often reading between 3 and 5 books at the same time, and occasionally there’s a theme that might not be remarkable in one book… but when I see it in three books, I take notice. In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters included among its characters a set of brothers, one of whom…

  • the YA horror novel aesthetic

    You could say that every genre has its own aesthetic, but lately the YA horror genre has been taking aesthetic to a new level – beyond cover design, or even typeface and chapter headings. The first YA novel that did this really effectively was Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – a novel which some…