Offbeat YA: Features Room

Welcome to the Features Room.

Try my memes and join my literature ramblings.

Here is a list of the memes/challenges/events I take/took part in and my own features. If you're curious about Offbeat YA's history, check them out...or (in case of ongoing memes/features), if you like what you read, jump in yourself!

DISCUSSION POSTS (single posts in chronological order):

A Picnic in the Twilight Zone (10/11/12)

LGBT Month Think Piece: What Does the Genre Need? (04/11/14)

What Happened to Comment Love? (05/10/14)

Are Social Media Relevant for Bloggers? (11/29/14)

Are Bloggers Getting the Respect They Deserve? (04/07/15)

Confessions of a Senior Blogger: My Take on Ageism in the Book Blogging Community (09/02/15)

Bloggers to Authors: Where Do You Cross the Line? (01/31/16)

Why I Don't Suffer from ARC Envy (I Swear I Don't) (07/07/16)

Why Ratings Give Me a Headache (Sometimes) (09/09/16)

Tell Me Again How a Hyped Book Is Born (03/23/17)

From Comment-Ça-Va to No-Comment: When Does a Post Make You Talk? (02/06/18)

Five Things I've Never Said in My Reviews (And Probably Never Will) (03/10/18)

The Craft of Reviewing: Or How I Amended My Evil Ways Over the Years (06/06/18)

Offbeat YA's Most Embar(r)assing Moments! (08/13/18)
Giving It Our (He)art and Soul: Why Each and Every Blogger Is an Artist in Their Own Way (01/16/19)
It's a Tough Job: Tales about Your Dream Career and More (03/27/19)

ORIGINAL FEATURES (single posts in chronological order):

A READER'S QUIRKS (extremely random)

ARQ 1: Are You Attached to Authors? (05/25/13)

ARQ 2: Five Steps to Reading a Novel (08/23/13)

ARQ 3: Tips for Slimming Your TBR List Down (10/07/14)

ARQ 4: You, Irresistible Afterlife Novel (01/23/15)

ARQ 5: Why I'm Not Reading Your "Sexy" YA Book (02/07/15)
ARQ 6: The Peter Pan Syndrome (09/16/18)

REVIEW MORSELS (extremely random)

RM 1: Nova Ren Suma, Dawn Kurtagich, Ilsa J. Bick (03/20/16)

(The Walls Around Us, The Dead House, The Dark Passages duology)

RM 2: Matthew S. Cox, Alison Goodman, Jeri Smith-Ready (06/25/16)

(Nine Candles of Deepest Black, Singing the Dogstar Blues, This Side Of Salvation)

RM 3: Patrick Ness, Robin Wasserman, E.S. Wesley (01/02/17)

(More Than This, The Waking Dark, The Outs)

RM 4: Janet McNally, Seanan McGuire, Janet Tashjian (01/29/17)

(Girls in the Moon, Every Heart a Doorway, For What It's Worth)

RM 5: B.C. Johnson, A.S. King, Dawn Kurtagich (05/20/17)

(Deadgirl: Goneward, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future,The Creeper Man)

RM 6: Parker Peevyhouse, Nova Ren Suma, A.S. King (02/15/18)

(Where Futures End, Imaginary Girls, Still Life with Tornado)

RM 7: Seanan McGuire, Karen Healey, Barbara Stewart (04/28/18)

(Down Among the Sticks and Bones, When We Wake, The In-Between)

RM 8: Neal Shusterman, Karen Healey, Nova Ren Suma (05/14/18)

(Challenger Deep, While We Run, 17 & Gone)

RM 9: Kali Wallace, Karen Foxlee, A.S. King (07/14/18)

   (Shallow Graves, The Midnight Dress, I Crawl Through It)
RM 10: Ilsa J. Bick, Han Nolan, J.R. Rain et al. (09/09/18)
   (Draw the Dark, Dancing on the Edge, Chronology)
RM 11: Nova Ren Suma, Seanan McGuire, Parker Peevyhouse (03/04/19)
   (A Room Away from the Wolves, Sparrow Hill Road, The Echo Room)

SCREEN TIME (a look at my favourite TV series, past and present...and the occasional rant. Again, extremely random)

ST 1: "Fame" (1982) (09/21/14)

ST 2: "Under the Dome" (2013) - Pt. 1 (11/16/14)

ST 3: "Heroes" (2006) (09/22/15)

ST 4: Dear Screenwriters, You Have No Right (06/09/16)

ST 5: In Which I'm Hitchhiking for the TARDIS (02/19/17)

ST 6: 3+7 All Time Favourite TV Series (Pt.1) (01/27/18)

ST 7: 3+7 All Time Favourite TV Series (Pt.2) (02/02/18)

MEMES (newest to oldest - single posts in chronological order):

TELL ME SOMETHING TUESDAY

TMST 1: Favourite UF Books (09/26/17)

TMST 2: Would You Rather Time-Travel or Teleport? (10/24/17)