Everything Here Is The Best Thing Ever by Justin Taylor, besides being a book with an incredibly long title, is a collection of short stories, basically about hipsters being unemployed doing un-glamourous things. Everything Here Is The Best Thing Ever is small, topping off at 185 pages. The stories are gritty. Some I related with […]
Review of This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
March 1, 2010
You ever read a book that makes you want to run to the grocery store and stock up on batteries, canned food, and eye the moon with suspicion? No? Well, friends, I think you need to check out the Moon trilogy by Susan Beth Pfeffer. The first book, Life As We Knew It, set my […]
Review of The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
February 28, 2010
Sebastian Prendergast does not get out much. He’s this home schooled kid who lives with his grandmother in a dome. He is also the main character of The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni. Sebastian’s grandmother gets a stroke, which will have the effect of drastically changing his life, as does the introduction of punk […]
Review of Tagged by Mara Purnhagen
February 26, 2010
Tagged by Mara Purnhagen isn’t a book I’ve seen around the blogosphere too much, but I think it’s just as deserving of attention as the plethora of contemporary high-school based novels I’ve seen. Tagged was a quick, and by quick I mean 3 hours non-stop, read. Kate Morgan is basically your average jane-high-school, except, well, […]
Review of The Total Tragedy of A Girl Named Hamlet by Erin Dionne
February 25, 2010
Middle school is awesome. I saw a tweet/link/blog post — something internets related the other day which asked is Middle Grade Fiction The New YA. While I see MG fiction as being awesome, I also see it as being of a completely different sphere than YA, yes both types of books are targeted at non-adult […]
Review of Beatle Meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams
February 24, 2010
I don’t read a whole lot of Australian YA. As an American, my access to Australian YA seems limited to books by Melina Marchetta and Markus Zusak. I don’t complain, as Zusak is a fabulous author, and I have yet to read Marchetta but I hear she is excellent too. Beatle Meets Destiny by Gabrielle […]