Eve's Fan Garden

My daughter’s high school sent out their newsletter today – full of last minute reminders and summer reading lists. It was very exciting to see that three of our previously featured books are included on the 2010-2011 Florida Teens Read! list. Congratulations to Kristin Cashore (Graceling), Gayle Forman (If I Stay) and Maggie Stiefvater (Shiver) [...]

This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly takes a look at the 100 Greatest Characters of the last 20 years. They come from books, movies, and TV shows, all things that we love! Some of the most notable were #2 Harry Potter, #13 Jack Sparrow, and #53 Edward Cullen. I don’t want to give too much [...]

It is the beginning of the month with means that we will begin to feature our new books of the month Wonderous Strange and Darklight by Lesley Livingston A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce Dead in the Family (Sookie [...]

Well I thought yesterday’s interview with Simone Elkeles was going to be my last with the authors I met at TBF Live, but then I opened my email this morning and there was an email from Martin Wilson, author of the wonderful book What They Always Tell Us. I did have a chance to see [...]

At TBF Live I had the chance to sit in on Simone Elkeles presentation, actually it was standing room only, so I stood in the corner with my notebook and tried to soak it all in. She gave a wonderful presentation, showing off her hysterical book trailers and giving some insight into her books. Before [...]

While at The Book Fest 2010, I had the opportunity to meet Lisa Schroeder, author of I Heart You, You Haunt Me, Chasing Brooklyn, Far From You and It’s Raining Cupcakes. She gave a great presentation and was nice enough to do an interview with us. I can’t say enough how wonderful all the authors [...]

As I said in the recap of the Teen Book Fest yesterday (if you need a refresher, check here)- I simply had way too much stuff to put in all one post, so for the next few days I will be posting additional author interviews. I was amazed at how many great authors were willing [...]

Ok- so this is going to be a loaded post. In fact I have so much stuff that I can’t even fit in one post, so there will be more posts to follow later this week. This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend an amazing event that is held annually in Rochester, NY, [...]

It’s Raining Cupcakes It’s Raining Cupcakes is the first middle grades novel by our February Book of the Month Author, Lisa Schroeder. Lisa’s Young Adult genre books, I Heart You, You Haunt Me,  Far From You and Chasing Brooklyn are all written in verse. It’s Raining Cupcakes is her first book in prose. It’s Raining [...]

All of us from Eve’s Fan Garden’s Book Club want to wish you a warm and fuzzy Mother’s Day! To celebrate the wonders of motherhood, we would like to give away one lucky winner a swag package! (This package will contain some random arcs and swag we have been saving for just this kind of [...]

Suzanne Collins – author of the NY Times Best Selling Novels The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, was named one of the most influential people of 2010. “In our annual TIME 100 issue we name the people who most affect our world.The TIME 100 list includes such other luminaries as Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Steve [...]

Congratulations to the winners from the Simone Elkeles chat! Perfect Chemistry Tee shirt: Sara Elizabeth Simone Elkeles Book Cindy Victoria Sonya Melanie Perfect Chemistry Water Bottle Lynn Maggie Jessica Teresita All winners have been notified by email. Thank you to all who submitted questions and came to the chat! We had a great time with [...]

Winners have been chosen! Check your email to see if you’ve won! Simone has generously agreed to donate three of her books (winner’s choice of book) as well as Perfect Chemistry water bottles for our giveaway! There might even be some tee shirts available! Make sure to register for the giveaway at the following link [...]

Simone Elkeles just announced on her Facebook that Rules of Attraction is number 3 on the upcoming NY Times Best Seller List! Congrats to Simone! Be sure to be here next Tuesday at 9 pm EST to chat with Simone and ask her how it feels! Chat info and giveaway registration

Okay, I must get on my soapbox for a minute to spread the word about an organization near and dear to my heart! As teacher I have had the privilege of having a project funded through DonorsChoose.org. DonorsChoose.org is a tremendous organization that matches donors up with classroom projects in need of funding. Instead of [...]