{"id":469,"date":"2015-01-01T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:42:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:42:18","slug":"theyre-here-some-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Here! Some Observations."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/2015\/01\/the-2014-finalists.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cybils finalists for 2014<\/a>, that is. And the diversity tally this year is something to shout about (in a good way, I mean). Some personal highlights from this year&#8217;s Cybils finalists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of our most longstanding blog buds, <a href=\"http:\/\/melissawiley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Wiley<\/a>, is a finalist in the Easy Readers category for her book <i>Inch and Roly and the Sunny Day Scare<\/i>. YAY YAY YAY!<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;m very excited to start judging Round 2 in the Graphic Novels category&#8211;so many amazing finalists for both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/2014-finalists-graphic-novels-for-young-adults\" target=\"_blank\">Young Adults<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/2014-finalists-graphic-novels-for-elementary-middle-grades\" target=\"_blank\">Elementary &amp; Middle Grades<\/a>. And I haven&#8217;t read that many of them prior to this&#8211;just <i>In Real Life<\/i> and <i>The Shadow Hero<\/i>. I&#8217;m eager to read Jimmy Gownley&#8217;s <i>The Dumbest Idea Ever!<\/i>, which I read some buzz about when it came out (I love the title), and I&#8217;ve also heard great things about <i>The Harlem Hellfighters<\/i>&#8230;but most of all I&#8217;m pleased to see the level of variety: the diversity of authors as well as subject matter and style.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>There are some awesome-looking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/2014-finalists-middle-grade-fiction\" target=\"_blank\">middle grade finalists<\/a> this year. I don&#8217;t read as much middle grade fiction, but I really want to check out <i>Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood <\/i>(yay for more books by South Asian authors!) and <i>Death by Toilet Paper<\/i>.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t yet managed to review <i>Brown Girl Dreaming<\/i>, but I&#8217;m happy (and not surprised) to see it make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/2014-finalists-poetry\" target=\"_blank\">the Poetry list<\/a>. As a rule I don&#8217;t generally read novels in verse, but somehow I feel differently about the memoir form, and this one is unlike anything else I&#8217;ve read.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;ve only read three of the seven <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/2014-finalists-speculative-fiction-for-young-adults\" target=\"_blank\">YA Spec Fic<\/a> finalists! My TBR list just grew&#8230;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t, shockingly, read ANY of the YA Fiction finalists. Not even <i>Pointe<\/i> by Brandy Colbert, which has been on my radar for a while. MOAR BOOKS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think of the Big Reveal? What finalist titles are you looking forward to most? Inquiring minds (or, anyway, mind) want to know.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cybils finalists for 2014, that is. 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