Retrospective and whatever.

Stuff that happened on blog this week:

• Interviewed Jenny Moss
• The Twenty Boy Summer collab was revealed.
• Reviewed Along for the Ride, Sisters in Sanity, and Jane in Bloom.
• Posted some festive Along for the Ride stuff.
• I'm waiting on Princess for Hire. (And, apparently, lots of you are waiting on it as well.)
• And I posted the video of Cindy Pon's book launch fiesta.

Other stuff you should be aware of:

Remember this video? Yeah, there's a whole contest based on stalking Twenty Boy Summer.

Guidelines:

1. Take a picture or video of Twenty Boy Summer on the shelves in the store, kiosk, or library (I think I am the only video person so far, so I encourage you to take one yourself.)
   
2. Email it with your first name, store/library name, and the city and state where it was taken to sarah (dot) ockler (at) gmail (dot) com with the subject “TBS Map Contest”
3. For an extra entry, take a picture or video of the book with YOU in it, holding it or pointing at it or singing to it or doing some other creative (but not illegal) thing (I'm pretty sure what I did wasn't illegal. And if it was...well, I didn't get caught.)
   

Pics and videos will be posted at SarahOckler.com along with a Google map showing all of the places Twenty Boy Summer has been spotted in the wild. The more times you find and document TBS in different stores and libraries, the more times you can enter!

The contest is open to U.S. residents only. Participants under age 13 must have a parent/guardian enter for them. We’ll randomly select a winning entry from all of the entries on July 1 and will notify the winner by email.

Good luck and happy book hunting!

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This book comes out this week:

Prada and Prejudice by Mandy Hubbard

[from amazon]

To impress the popular girls on a high school trip to London, klutzy Callie buys real Prada heels. But trying them on, she trips…conks her head…and wakes up in the year 1815!

There Callie meets Emily, who takes her in, mistaking her for a long-lost friend. As she spends time with Emily’s family, Callie warms to them—particularly to Emily’s cousin Alex, a hottie and a duke, if a tad arrogant.

But can Callie save Emily from a dire engagement, and win Alex’s heart, before her time in the past is up?

More Cabot than Ibbotson, Prada and Prejudice is a high-concept romantic comedy about finding friendship and love in the past in order to have happiness in the present.

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I've read this, and it was super good and cute. It comes out on Thursday, so I'll try to finish my review by then. But I'm not promising anything, because I have finals this week. Finals that I should be studying for right now.

Speaking of finals, I ONLY HAVE ONE MORE DAY OF BIOLOGY. OH MY GOSH.

I think I will need to celebrate this fact.