Month: January 2017

Adventures in YA 042: Reading Challenges

Welcome to another episode of Adventures in YA. In this episode we talk about reading challenges for 2017, we go over the Adventures in YA Reading Challenge and give each other our books for the 6 Book Reading Challenge.

Kristin:
Sea of Shadows
The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily
Girl Against the Universe
A Torch Against the Night

Sara:
Nightshade

Adventures in YA 2017 Reading Challenge

Six Book Challenge

Kristin’s Books for Sara
*The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
*Impulse
*A Taste for Monsters
*Meant To Be
*Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist
*Catherine

Sara’s Books for Kristin
*This One Summer
*Dreamland
*Frost Bite
*Obsidian
*We Are the Ants
*Garden Spells

Adventures in YA 2017 Reading Challenge

Welcome to the Adventures in YA 2017 Reading Challenge! Listed below are 24 reading challenges you can complete throughout the year. Our hope is that you will use this challenge as a way to push yourself as a reader and help get some books off your TBR pile. Use the hashtag #AYARC17 on social media to let us know you’ve joined the challenge and to let us know how you’re doing on the challenge throughout the year.

Click here for a downloadable PDF of the challenge

Adventures in YA 041: 2016 Year End Wrap Up

2016 is behind us and it’s time to do our 2016 Year End Wrap Up. Join us as we talk about some of our favorite books of the year and try and work through Kristin’s issues with series. We also stop record at some point and it’s all down hill from there. And we may also fangirl over Goblin and Gong Yoo…again.

Kdramas and Cdramas mentioned:
Goblin (you should all be watching this!)
Love 020

Sara:
Please Ignore Vera Dietz
All These Things I’ve Done

Kristin:
Sweet Evil
Gemina
A Million Worlds With You
Da Vinci’s Tiger
A Taste for Monsters

2016 Year End Wrap Up

New Author(s) Discovered in 2016
Kristin:
* Nicola Yoon
*Katie McGarry
Sara:
*Jason Reynolds

Favorite Character:
Sara:
*Alice from the Truth About Alice
Kristin:
*Needles from When I Was the Greatest

Best World Building/Most Vivid Setting You Read This Year
Kristin:
*A Taste for Monsters
*And I Darken
*The Remnant Chronicles Series
Sara
*The Winner’s Kiss
*Manners and Mutiny
*Dark Days Club

Favorite Cover
*The Thousandth Floor

Hidden Gem of 2016:
Kristin and Sara:
*Wink Poppy Midnight
Kristin:
*Denton Little’s Death Date

Best Series Started in 2016
Sara:
*Falling Kingdoms
Kristin
*The Witch Hunter
*And I Darken

Best Book of 2016
Sara:
*An Ember in the Ashes
Kristin:
*Everything Everything
*A Taste for Monsters

A Book You Didn’t Get To in 2016 but will Read in 2017
Kristin:
*The Last True Love Story
*Three Dark Crowns
Sara:
*Crooked Kingdom

Most Surprising Read:
Kristin:
*Tell Me Three Things
*Denton’s Little Death Date
Sara:
*Wink Poppy Midnight

Series We Finished in 2016
Sara:
*The Finished School Series
*The Winner’s Trilogy
*Tiny Pretty Things Duology
Kristin:
*Shatter Me
*The Winner’s Trilogy
*Tiny Pretty Things Duology
*Just One Duology
*The Remnant Chronicles series
*The Dustland Series
*The Young Elites
*The Firebird
*The Wrath and the Dawn

Most Anticipated Book of 2017
Kristin:
*The Hate U Give
*I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Sara:
*Warcross