Remembering My Teen Years: Celebrity Crushes I tend to be a very nostalgic person – that’s probably why I started collecting vintage YA books a few years ago and why I return to my favourite books, movies, and television shows over and over again. I saw the trailer for Kid 90 (the documentary directed, produced, and starring Soleil Moon Frye – most well-known for her iconic role in Punky Brewster) […]
Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme previously hosted by the lovely folks @ The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme is a freebie so I have decided to list my: Top Ten Favourite Nostalgic Book Covers I love all kinds of nostalgic and vintage books covers especially teen books I used to love back in the day. When I saw […]
Lois Duncan: Teen Thriller Writer Extraordinaire Lois Duncan was the writer of over a dozen teen thrillers that I adored reading when I was growing up. A writer whose life was marred by tragedy when, in a strange parallel to her own writing, her daughter Kaitlyn was murdered under mysterious circumstances. After this heart-breaking turn of events, Duncan turned away from writing fiction. She instead put her focus on finding her daughter’s […]
I came across this tag on YouTube by user Jess Lizama – I am so nostalgic for the 80’s at the best of times so I just had to appropriate this tag! The 80’s Tag Thanks to Jess for coming up with this. It stirred up a lot of fond memories trying to think of answers for each question. I also added on a few of my own at the bottom! Favourite 80’s […]