2018 Reading Challenge

Happy New Year, Germies, and welcome to our 3rd annual reading challenge! The past two years I’ve given you checklists to complete over the course of the year with different genres and authors and such so that you might read a little more diversely than you would have without it. This year, I’ve gone a […]

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Reading Challenge 2017

Well, Germies, we’ve made it into a new year yet again, and we get to talk about one of our collective favorite things: Books! Last year, we started a new tradition of giving out a reading challenge for the first time to promote reading diversely and maybe just getting you a little bit out of […]

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The Winners Have Been Announced for the 2015 *Book Shimmy* Awards!

Epic Reads has revealed the winners for the 2015 *Book Shimmy* Awards, celebrating the best in YA literature. A special congratulations to Germ’s founder, Jennifer Niven! All the Bright Places won in the category of Mental Health Matters! Thank you to all who voted and to all who have read the touching, roller coaster ride that is Violet and Finch’s story. The complete […]

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