The thing about Walter Dean Myers’s books is that there is something for everybody. Walter Dean Myers was a prolific writer with books about young adults of color that span a wide variety of genre and situations. Juba!: A Novel is the last book that Myers wrote and for the most part it is a book […]
Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre edited by Paula Guran | Anthology Review
October 1, 2015
I’ll admit — I was really looking forward to Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre edited by Paula Guran. However, I ended up feeling like this was an uneven anthology with few stories that blew my mind. Thirteen by Stephen Graham Jones Well, the first story in Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre is super weird. It’s […]
Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman | Book Review
September 30, 2015
My immediate first words upon finishing Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman were “what do I even do with my life now?†For real, this book took me on quite the journey and I do not know about you all, but when I come back from a particularly great trip, I have this disoriented […]
The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin | Book Review
September 21, 2015
I love that every now and then I unexpectedly stumble upon a quiet middle grade gem. The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin is a book that I wanted to read for the grief aspect. I actually bizarrely enough enjoy reading books where there is a grief element, maybe because I am lucky enough to […]
A Curious Tale Of The In-Between by Lauren DeStefano | Book Review
September 15, 2015
A Curious Tale Of The In-Between by Lauren DeStefano is a charming and at turns dark middle grade book featuring Pram, a girl who can talk to ghosts.
The Immortal Heights by Sherry Thomas | Book Review
September 14, 2015
I swear 2015 is my year of finishing trilogies – especially trilogies that I’ve read due to blogging (Chaos Walking, y’all). I have just finished the last word on the last page of Sherry Thomas’s Elemental Trilogy and WOW WHAT A READ. To the point where I am talking in all caps because I do […]