By Sara Thompto & Kristin Bivens Here at Shiny Happy People Publishing, LLC, we have some HUGE news. It has always been our inte...

By Kristin Bivens Any of you out there ever heard of Lena Dunham? Or better yet, have you heard of the HBO show, Girls ? My boyfriend an...

My first experience with nonfiction, and perhaps most peoples first experience, was with the Diary of Anne Frank.  I remember reading ...

By Kristin Bivens When I was a kid, I wasn't so sure about the movie, The Wizard of Oz. Something about it always gave me the creeps...

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By Sara E Thompto SPOILER ALERT -- Right off the bat this blog tells the ending of If I Stay. If you haven't read If I Stay but plan...

By Sara E Thompto The Book If I Stay, written by Gayle Forman, follows the point of view of seventeen-year-old Mia Hall. Mia has alway...