A Brave, New World: an introduction to Eve’s Fan Garden
Since the dawn of this earth, women have pulled mankind into other worlds. It all began with Eve in the Garden of Eden when she took one bite from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which then plunged her and Adam into a world filled with adventure and the mundane, light and darkness, birth and death, passion and pain, love and hate.
Friday Five (9)
September 3rd
While I am sure there are others out there who do a Friday Five, it was one of our favorite authors, Cheryl Renee Herbsman who inspired us to start one of our own. Check out her amazing blog.
The way this works is each Friday morning we will post a prompt, question, topic, idea, etc [...]
Great News for Mockingjay!!
Just got this email from Scholastic and we are super excited for one of our favorite Authors, Suzanne Collins!
“MOCKINGJAY, THE FINAL BOOK IN THE HUNGER GAMES
TRILOGY BY SUZANNE COLLINS, TOPS ALL NATIONAL BESTSELLER LISTS
WITH SALES OF MORE THAN 450,000 COPIES IN ITS FIRST WEEK OF PUBLICATION
Scholastic Goes Back to Press for an Additional 400,000 [...]
Tell Me a Secret Roundtable
Recently I was lucky enough to be able to participate in a roundtable discussing Holly Cupala’s Tell Me a Secret with the readergirlz diva’s, some other book bloggers, and the postergirlz lit advisory council. It was a fantastic group of people, and I had a great time!
If you would like to read our discussion (you [...]
Eve’s Ramblings ~ This vs. That
Each week we try to think of some kind of topic we can write about here on EFG. Something just for fun, that we can tie into whatever we want to do for our Friday Five. This week we were tossing around idea’s and decided to do a This vs. That type theme… Audio books [...]
Teens’ Top Ten 2010
The American Library Association recently posted the list of novels that are up for the 2010 Teens’ Top Ten Awards. Voting is open through September 17th. There are some great titles to choose from I am interested to see which ones win this year. Winners will be announced in a webcast at www.ala.org/teenstopten during “teen read [...]
Happy Release Day for Clockwork Angel!!
Today is the release day for Cassandra Clare’s book Clockwork Angel! I’ve been itching to read this book and I’m excited that the day has finally arrived (the book is on it’s way to me now!!!). Congratulations Cassandra!
Cassandra has some great information over on her website, including an awesome countdown widget that automatically flips to her next book [...]
EFG Tackles Banned Books & Censorship
As an avid reader, I am always curious about the intentions of others to get a book banned. What does that really mean to ban a book? And who, ultimately, is qualified to decide what should or shouldn’t be banned? Furthermore, I am exploring my own ideas of censorship from the perspective of a teacher [...]
In My Mailbox (15)
August 29th
We are so excited to be a part of this meme, called In My Mailbox, originally started on The Story Siren book blog.
Basically, each week we will post what goodies, give-a-ways, ARCs, etc we received in the mail, books we purchased, or checked out from the library.
To learn more about how the In My [...]
Book Review: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me. Peeta was taken prisioner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely he is dead. It is probably best if he is dead. . .
I read Mockingjay, [...]
And, the winner is…
If your log-in name is….
Zombie Rights
and you were at last night’s Holly Black chat, your name was chosen for the White Cat “swag”. Please drop an email to evesbookclub@evesfangarden.com for details on how to claim your prize! Congratulations!
Update – Zombie Rights has not yet claimed the prize. A new winner will be drawn if we [...]

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