{"id":3846,"date":"2014-06-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2014-05-30T18:48:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T23:48:33","slug":"hello-june-howdy-blogathonners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3846","title":{"rendered":"Hello, June! Howdy, Blogathonners!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Howdy, book fans and Blogathonners!<\/p>\n

If you’re new to the BooksYALove party, please note that I love young adult books, love connecting the right book to the its perfect reader, and never (ever) give away the ending!<\/p>\n

On June 6-8, I’ll be participating in Mother Reader’s 9th Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge<\/a>, this year celebrating Diversity in Kids’ Books by reading and writing about young adult and middle grade books with characters of diverse race, cultural heritage, and family. My 48 hours will include writing about some of the books I’m reading that weekend for future BooksYALove posts – so many good books with diverse casts, but so many more needed. #weneeddiversebooks<\/a> for all ages<\/p>\n

I’m also doing a year-long challenge hosted by Bookish<\/a> blog, trying to get my TBR shelf under control.<\/p>\n

For most folks, TBR signifies “to-be-read” books, but for me and other bloggers, it means “to be reviewed” – in other words, all those great books from last year (or earlier) that we still haven’t talked about, even though we liked them a lot. The siren song of the newest book is so compelling, you know.<\/p>\n

I’ve recommended 30 books with pre-2014 publication dates so far (like these<\/a>), but added none to that list in May (I was resting between April AtoZ Blog Challenge and June Blogathon) – I will introduce a few more in June, for sure.<\/p>\n

Of course, I’m looking forward to our traditional Blogathon features like Haiku Day and Word Cloud Day, as well as alerting y’all to each summer week’s free complete audiobooks available for download through the SYNC Audiobook<\/a> program (Thursday-Wednesday).<\/p>\n

Please subscribe to email updates or follow BooksYALove using the links in the right sidebar.<\/p>\n

Happy June! Happy reading!<\/p>\n

**kmm<\/p>\n

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