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Cindy: This morning when I saw this video it had 310 views. I emailed Lynn to ask if she’d seen it and said we need to blog this but we were both busy today. This evening as I write this, the video has over 74,000 views and will be climbing. But you can’t miss this, [...]

Cindy: Our middle school students demanded a reserve list for Christopher Paolini’s new book Inheritance (Random/Knopf 11-8-2011) last school year the minute the publication date was announced. It was 7:30 a.m. yesterday when the first student asked if we had the book yet! Um, no…the bookstore isn’t open and our UPS delivery of the preorders [...]

Cindy: I’m currently serving a two-year appointment as a judge for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Young Adult Literature Jury) and will be attending the Awards Ceremony on April 29th in Los Angeles where the winners are announced. I was thrilled to learn that all six of our finalists will be in town for the [...]

Cindy: By the time you read this, I’ll be sitting in one of these chairs in Key West (hopefully one outside on the deck) reading through my pile of books…if I’m not out walking the beach or town. I’ll be celebrating the locale of Jennifer Holm’s Newbery Honor winning Turtle in Paradise and I have Meg Cabot’s new book, [...]

Cindy: As Courtney Jones reported over at the Likely Stories Booklist Blog earlier today, the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes shortlists were announced today, including the adult novel category judged by Booklist’s own Donna Seaman. As one of the judges for the YA Lit jury, I’ve been chewing my fingernails waiting for our list to [...]

Lynn: We have so much fun doing our year-end top ten lists that we decided to spread the fun of top ten lists throughout the year.  We’re starting by listing the top ten arcs that we scooped up at the ALA Midwinter Conference and can’t wait to read. All I really need to say about [...]

Cindy and Lynn: The wonderful author, Brian Jacques, died this last week, Feb. 5th.  It was much too soon and the legions of us who loved his books are saddened.   Jacques left us over 20 books about the furry denizens of Mossflower Wood starting with Redwall published in 1986.  Filled with adventure, humor and [...]

Cindy and Lynn: As many families gather together and are reminded to give thanks for the good things in their lives, we at Bookends would like to offer our list of things we are grateful for and wish to celebrate.  In our rushed and harried world it is easy to focus on complaints and we [...]

Cindy and Lynn: We interrupt our regularly scheduled book reviews with this good news: We were recently interviewed about the Bookends Blog by Aaron Mead over at Children’s Books and Reviews. Aaron and his wife, Angela, have the goal of “helping adults find great children’s books” and use their blog to report on books they [...]

Lynn: Happy Labor Day Weekend! We hope everyone is enjoying a relaxing weekend. Today is also a big day for our focus group. The boys turn seven! They started testing books for us when they were five and now two years later they take their job very seriously! Here is a picture of them taken [...]