Yay! *updates*

 For some reason, I was terrified to ever post something that wasn't a book review on here, but now I see that was ridiculous and ya'll need updates!

 First off, I'd like to welcome LeAnne to the Committee! You can check out her bio on the committee page. I am looking forward to her review of The Destiny Trilogy by Sarah Holman. It is such a blessing that someone volunteered to review a self-published book because I was about to completely freak over how much I was going to have to do by myself in the next month. LeAnne, you rock. :-D







 Secondly, I just found out my library got in Ruby Redfort and Cheesie Mack, which have been sitting on my Bucket List for a long time. Although I'm nervous, because someone said that Ruby Redfort has some big deal about a Budha, and Cheesie Mack is crude. We shall see. At least I'm not going to have to buy them!

 Picking books has been really difficult. Anyone taking a gander at my Goodreads 2012 Reading Challenge will see that I've read a lot a books, and mostly it's because I wanted to find a wide variety for Verve Lit Awards. Okay, there was some personal reading fun going on there too. The problem is, most awesome books are too inappropriate for the theme of VLA. Whereas books like Dream of Night and The Wednesday Wars are super awesome, but published before 2011. I know that the Committee voted unanimously that books from the last decade (2002-2012) should be open for nomination, but I was holding out for books this year. Oh well, I guess Dream of Night, The Wednesday Wars, The Penderwicks, and Melanie Dickerson it is! Tomorrow I'll be posting a poll for you all to decide which Melanie Dickerson book we pick to nominate! Then, I'll finally get around to nominating the awesome and completely reading-worthy Wonder Struck.






I think next year, we're going to make this less difficult. Promise.


 Blessings,

Jess Verve