When I was an actual young adult read: high schooler I used to go to the library all the time. Also I had this weird obsession with reading books with main characters named Alice — thanks to Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. I borrowed Alice, I Think by Susan Juby from the library and after reading it and […]
Allison: She Is Not Invisible | Marcus Sedgwick | Book Review
April 22, 2015
In the past, I had heard so many good things about Marcus Sedgwick which is one of the reasons that I really wanted to give She Is Not Invisible a shot. I wanted to experience the supposed fantastic writing for myself because as we all know as all may have different opinions of what fantastic […]
Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver | Book Review
April 14, 2015
I am the sort of Lauren Oliver fan that if there was an announcement that she was writing a math textbook, I would preorder that textbook despite not really understanding math. In short, I am a Lauren Oliver fan girl. So, know that I do have certain biases. Vanishing Girls is Oliver’s latest addition to the […]
Reality Boy by AS King | Book Review
January 28, 2015
One thing that I really love about A.S. King’s books are that they make me think. They go to dark places sometimes and really force you to look beyond the surface and examine the deeper themes. On it’s surface, Reality Boy seems like the kind of book I would hate, given how much of the book […]
Summer Of The Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall | Book Review
July 30, 2014
After The Summer Of The Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall passed my threshold, I looked at it with optimism, but not much motivation. Friends, this book sat on my Kindle and then in my house for YEARS because I can sometimes be a terrible blogger. I decided to make McCall’s contemporary-fantasy retelling a summer priority in order to kill two birds with one stone — read an old book from my TBR pile and thus be able to pass it on and also to remove a Netgalley book from my queue. Also, because The Odyssey is mad awesome.
Love And Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan | Book Review
July 8, 2014
Are you looking for a fantastic under the radar young adult book? Love And Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan is a book that I have not seen receive much acclaim in the circles that I run in, but it’s certainly a book that deserves to be on your stacks. It is a book that I […]