Top Ten List: Penna's Top Ten Favorite Artists (While He Was Away by Karen Schreck)

Penna's Top Ten favorite artists:

1. Mark Rothko (His color “hums.” That’s what David and I say.)
2. Georges Seurat (Knows how to connect the dots.)
3. Artemnisia Gentileschi (Italian Baroque painter.  First female painter to paint with the big guns in Florence.  Her paintings are gorgeous.  They’re also often about women cutting the heads off kings.  Artemnisia really knew how to work out her issues . . . and make great art at the same time.)
4. Vincent Van Gogh (Love sunflowers and starry, starry nights.)
5. Claude Monet  (There are haystacks, and then there are haystacks, and then there are haystacks.  Seriously.  He showed me that you should never look at anything just once—and you should look at it even more, should you dare to dry and draw it.)
6. Ana Mendiata  (Check her out.  She’s fearless.  And she’s not afraid to get dirty.)
7. Marc Chagalls (He dreams in paint.  And I love his lovers.)
8. Frida Kahlo (That woman took her pain and made something beautiful out of it.  She’s magical.  She’s real.  She’s magical real.)
9. David O’Dell  (Best Manga Artist Around.  Also a very cool person.) 
10. Justine Ditmore  (My grandmother.  What can I say?  She was ahead of her time way back when, and right here and now, she’s an inspiration to me.)

Gemma Halliday's Top Ten Favorite Teen Movies + Giveaway

Today I welcome author Gemma Halliday.  I reviewed her YA book, Deadly Cool earlier this week which I loved, it has mystery, a cool heroine and an interesting boy, what more could you want.  Today Gemma is talking about her favorite teen movies.  See if you see one or more of your favorites on this list, I know I do.

Top Ten Favorite Teen Movies of All Time

by Gemma Halliday

I have a huge soft spot for teen movies, whether they're dramatic coming of age films or
total slapstick comedies. Granted, I was a teen kind of a while ago now, but I still enjoy
reliving those years vicariously though the screen. So, here are my fav teen movies of all
time:

1. 16 Candles
(I'm a sucker for first love.)

2. The Breakfast Club
(Teen angst galore.)

3. Rebel Without a Cause
(James Dean - the original teen Bad Boy.)

4. Ferris Buller's Day Off
(Save Ferris!)

5. Say Anything
(So sweet, so romantic, so eighties.)

6. Clueless
(Like, totally as if!)

7. Scream
(I'll admit it. I scream my lungs out the first tie I saw this one.)

8. Mean Girls
(I so went to school with some of these girls.)

9. Superbad
(McLovin… an instant classic!)

10. Heathers
(The ultimate anti-establishment film.)


So, what are some of your favorite teen movies?




Giveaway

Enter using Rafflecopter below to win a set of Deadly Cool Trading Cards (I want some!)  Giveaway is open International and ends 11:59pm on 10/8. Only one entry is mandatory, your name and email.  Good luck!

Vanish Blog Tour: Will's Top Ten Favorite Things About Jacinda + Giveaway @SoVerySophie

Will’s Top Ten Favorite Things About Jacinda:

1. She’s not like other girls.
2. She’s the bravest person I know.
3. Her hair … have you seen it? It’s gorgeous.
4. She speaks to my heart.
5. She understands me like no one else.
6. She’ll never keep you waiting while she puts on her make-up.
7. She cares more about others than herself.
8. She makes a mean mac’n’cheese.
9. She smells awesome … like wind and rain and forest.
10. She hasn’t got a clue how beautiful she is.

** Swoon **  I heart me some Will.  This has to be the sweetest top ten list ever!


You can also check out the awesome trailer here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZa5v_LJyH8&feature=feedu

Giveaway

Sophie has generously offered a swag pack to a lucky blog reader, US only, ends 9/16/11.  Simply enter below - all that is required is your name and email address.  Now go out and read Firelight and Vanish if you haven't.  And if you have, take a moment and re-read Will's wonderful 10's list.

Jennifer Brown's Top Ten Current Books

Jennifer Brown's Top Ten Current Books
1. Sorta Like a Rockstar by Matthew Quick
2. Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
3. Room by Emma Donoghue
4. Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
5. Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
6. Crash Into Me by Albert Borris
7. The Sky Always Hears Me and the Hills Don’t Mind by Kristin Cronn-Mills
8. Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have by Allen Zadoff
9. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
10. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

About Bitter End

When Alex falls for the charming new boy at school, Cole, a handsome, funny, sports star who adores her, she can't believe she's finally found her soul mate-someone who truly understands her and loves her for who she really is.

At first, Alex is blissfully happy. Sure, Cole seems a little jealous of her relationship with her best friends, Zack and Bethany, but what guy would want his girlfriend spending all of her time with another boy? But as the months pass, Alex can no longer ignore Cole's small put-downs, pinches, or increasingly violent threats. As Alex struggles to come to terms with the sweet boyfriend she fell in love with and the boyfriend whose "love" she no longer recognizes, she is forced to choose - between her "true love" and herself.

Karyn Henley's (Breath of Angel) Top Ten Songs

Today I welcome Karyn Henley, author of Breath of Angel which is currently touring at Teen Book Scene.  Today she is sharing one of her Top Ten Lists.

I like all kinds of music, and I love almost any kind of harp music. I’ve taken harp lessons, though I’m still very much at the just-play-for-fun level. But that’s probably why Melaia is a chantress and harps are a major part of Breath of Angel. As for a top ten list of other songs that stir my heart:

“Scarborough Fair”

“Greensleaves”

“Ode to Joy”

Pachelbel’s Canon in D

Anything by Vivaldi

“Sailing” by Christopher Cross

“Classical Gas”

Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”

Anything by Yanni

Karl Jenkins’s “Adiemus” albums

Thanks Karyn for sharing with us today.  I will have a review of Breath of Angel in the next few weeks up.


About the Book:
The stranger’s cloak had fallen back, and with it, a long, white, blood-stained wing.
When Melaia, a young priestess, witnesses the gruesome murder of a stranger in the temple courtyard, age-old legends recited in song suddenly come to life. She discovers wings on the stranger, and the murderer takes the shape of both a hawk and a man.

Angels. Shape-shifters. Myths and stories—until now.

Melaia finds herself in the middle of a blood feud between two immortal brothers who destroyed the stairway to heaven, stranding angels in the earthly realm. When Melaia becomes a target, she finds refuge with a band of angels attempting to restore the stairway. But the restoration is impossible without settling an ancient debt—the “breath of angel, blood of man,” a payment that involves Melaia’s heart, soul, and destiny.

View the video trailer here.