Kate Spofford, author

Tag: young adult

  • March 2018 reading round-up

    # of books read: 15 audiobooks listened to: 2 ebooks read: 5 (6 if you count Wattpad!) total page count: 3,453 pages year total page count: 9,867 pages The highest monthly total yet this year! View this post on Instagram It’s rare that I go out and buy a brand new hardcover unless I’m going…

  • December reading round-up

    December reading round-up

    # of books read: 13 audiobooks listened to: 2 graphic novels read: 3 total page count: 3,954 year total page count: 44,234 Lots more reading this month!  Especially since I hardly wrote anything!  Did some editing and wrote a couple of chapters, but otherwise I’ve been busy reading… View this post on Instagram I’m not…

  • September reading round-up

    # of books read: 13 audiobooks listened to: 2 graphic novels read: 3 total page count: 3,786 year total page count: 35,349 View this post on Instagram I read a review of The Art of Starving and had to buy it for the library.  I don’t think I’ve ever read a book about a boy…

  • August reading round-up

    # of books read: 11 audiobooks listened to: 2 OwlCrate books read: 2 total page count: 2,689 year total page count: 31,563 This month I dedicated myself to making a dent in my Owlcrate books as well as the haul from the Book Barn.  It was a busy month, and I didn’t get as much…

  • 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…