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Alicia Brown

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Category: YA

e-books, historical fiction, news, novel, publishing, writing, YA

What I’ve Been Up To, Book Launch and Blog News!

Happy April! This month marks four years since I started recapping the Prydain series on this blog, and in that time, my life has changed a great deal. I started the “Prydain project” to fill my soul with joy as […]

April 2, 2019August 4, 2019by Alicia Brown
novel, prydain recaps, reading, writing, YA

The Story So Far…

(Or: How to Recap Four Books in Only Two Years) When I started this blog back in 2013, one of my challenges was finding topics to write about on a regular basis. Obviously, blogs are only worthwhile if they’re being […]

April 9, 2017by Alicia Brown
fun books, reading list, teens, YA

What I’m Reading: The Age of Miracles

Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles starts with a very simple premise: what if the rotation of the Earth slowed slightly so that the days and nights gradually became longer and longer? Walker tells the story through the eyes […]

March 7, 2016by Alicia Brown
prydain recaps, YA

The Black Cauldron, Chapter 10 – The Marshes of Morva

Sorry for the unannounced hiatus, folks – to paraphrase Shakespeare, my heart was in the ground with Adaon, and I had to pause ere it came back to me. That, and I’ve been busy. Last weekend, I went to YALLFest […]

November 17, 2015by Alicia Brown
reading, teens, YA

What I’m Reading: Paper Towns

As I take a brief hiatus from my Prydain recaps, reading John Green’s “Paper Towns” seemed like a no-brainer, given my love for “The Fault in Our Stars,” plus the recent media coverage of the movie adaptation that drew me […]

August 22, 2015by Alicia Brown
fantasy, fun books, prydain recaps, YA

Recapping Prydain

I recently started a new full-time work contract, which hasn’t left me much time for writing – or reading, for that matter. Given (or despite?) my limited amounts of free time, I’ve decided to try something a little different on […]

April 6, 2015by Alicia Brown
writing, YA

What it means to be a writer

You know how sometimes you’re online and follow a random link, and end up reading something that speaks to you in a profound way that feels like you were meant to read it? I was just browsing through YA and […]

February 15, 2015by Alicia Brown
fun books, Great Books, novel, reading, teens, writing, YA

Why I Love YA

As those of you familiar with my blog already know, for someone with a master’s degree in English, I’ve read appallingly few of what the world considers important books, or Great Books. There are several reasons for this, but the […]

January 6, 2015by Alicia Brown
chick lit, fun books, humor, memoir, reading, self-help, teens, writing, YA

10 books that had an impact on me

These are not necessarily my “favorite” books, but 10 that have a special place in my life for various reasons. Presented roughly in the order in which I encountered them: The Outsiders. The book that made me believe I could […]

September 3, 2014by Alicia Brown
Great Books, historical fiction, YA

What I’m Reading: The Book Thief

I suffered a personal loss while reading Marcus Zusak’s “The Book Thief” – my husband and I buried our beloved dog, who passed away last month after a long illness – so I’m sadly familiar with how our minds struggle […]

July 31, 2014by Alicia Brown

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