I’ve always appreciated the fact that while I can read a book in a couple of days, it might have taken the author years of hard work and dedication to write and edit it. So, while I curl up on the couch with a cuppa, ready to dive into my latest ‘must-read’, authors the world over are spending whole days banging out hundreds and thousands of words onto blank sheets, only to repeat the process over and over again. My …
Category: Teen & Young Adult
Dystopia is a big theme in a lot of teen and young adult books. Apocalyptic disasters, zombie takeovers, new world orders, inverted social hierarchies; you name it, you’ll find it …
When I was in secondary school, I had an excellent English teacher who was passionate about teaching poetry. We worked from an admittedly intimidating book, four-hundred pages of works from …
Recently I have found myself returning to my comfort reads because of everything going on in the world. Be it committing to a reread or merely flipping through, I cannot …
Paper Lanterns is the new Irish literary journal that lives and breathes all things teen and young adult literature. Founded by Grace Kelley, Ruth Ennis, and Amy O’Sullivan, the journal …
If you’re anything like me, you must be very excited about all the witchy Irish YA books that 2019 has brought. But with so many tempting choices, where to begin? …
In my first YA Hits of 2019 post I wrote about two excellent debuts. In this post, I welcome the return of one of the most-loved authors in YA, Cassandra Clare. The …
It is no secret that we care deeply about teen and YA books at Dubray, and love to talk about our favourites. Our Teen Book of the Month highlights many …
If I were to rate We Are Blood and Thunder on a baked-goods-scale, ranging from a stale cracker all the way up to a salt caramel dark chocolate torte, I …
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