Update: Thanks to interest, we’ve now added a second live discussion section option!

I am so happy to say that my series on #TheHungerGames will be offered again starting in June! This series will run Summer-Fall in SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity.

May the odds be ever in our favor. 🏹

https://youtu.be/Tlwojys1CR0?si=ZaYdjoDqyzcvmdf2

Info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/0930/

#Dystopia #SFF #YoungAdult #YALit #ScienceFiction #Books #Bookstodon #Resist

SPACE: The Hunger Games Book Club with Amy Sturgis (General Humanities)

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Two young men are thrown together on a space voyage full of mysteries in “The Darkness Outside Us” by Eliot Schrefer.
#SciFi #MMRomance

Ambrose wakes up on board his ship, and is told by the craft’s AI that he was injured during the launch and has been in a coma. He remembers all his training for this special mission to rescue his sister, who was sent to see if Saturn’s moon Titan could be colonized, but he doesn’t remember getting on board the ship or the accident that apparently injured him. There’s something else that’s concerning: Ambrose’s ship has been joined to another craft, that of his country’s primary competitor, and that ship is occupied by another spacefarer, Kodiak. The two young men must work together to unravel the mysteries and contradictions that seem to cloud their real mission.
#YoungAdult #GayBookReviews

https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2021/review-darkenss-outside-us-eliot-shrefer/?ref=mastodon

Review - The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Shrefer

Michael Joseph
YA Dystopian Fiction and the Defanging of Dark Themes - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

The Hunger Games is built on the premise of children murdering children on live television. The Giver depicts infanticide as routine civic procedure. Divergent packages totalitarian body-sorting as a personality quiz. YA dystopia is wildly popular and systematically defanged — and the gap between its premises and its execution tells us something important about how we talk to young readers about the darkness they already live inside.

David Somerfleck

Of Truth and Peril (Tales of Elaris #2) by Robyn Sarty
Release Date April 30, 2026
#Fantasy #Romance #YoungAdult #Retellings #FairyTaleRetellings

https://www.risingshadow.net/book/84822-of-truth-and-peril

New Young Adult Books to Read | April 28

Are you an avid reader of Young Adult books? This week you are in luck! With all of these new novels, you’re bound to find a new favorite book to add to your reading list. This week includes new novels from bestselling authors Chandelle LaVaun, Robyn Wideman & Cooper Wai, Brenda Mundt & Others, Mary Mecham, and more. Enjoy your new young adult books. Happy reading!
https://www.newinbooks.com/new-young-adult-books-to-read-april-28-2026/

#WeeklyReleases #YoungAdult

New Young Adult Books to Read | April 28 - NewInBooks

Are you an avid reader of Young Adult books? This week you are in luck! With all of these new novels, you’re bound to find a new favorite book to add to your reading list. This week includes new novels from bestselling authors Chandelle LaVaun, Robyn Wideman & Cooper Wai, Brenda Mundt & Others, Mary Mecham, and more. Enjoy your new young adult books. Happy reading!

NewInBooks

Merit and the Egyptian God Vol. 1 (Merit and the Egyptian God #1) by Yukari Sakai
Release Date April 28, 2026
#Fantasy #Romance #YoungAdult #Mythology #Manga

https://www.risingshadow.net/book/88801-merit-and-the-egyptian-god-vol-1

Slipping Glass (Fairy Tale Lies, Spies, and Assassins #2) by Jennifer Ellision
Release Date April 27, 2026
#Fantasy #Romance #YoungAdult #Retellings #FairyTaleRetellings

https://www.risingshadow.net/book/90361-slipping-glass