Homeroom Diaries Doodling Diarist Prize Pack Giveaway

Man oh man do I love giveaway days on Good Books & Good Wine! Today’s awesome giveaway features a book, a super cool sketchbook AND DRAWING PENS, which okay amuses me to absolutely no end. So, get your creative on and enter to win using the rafflecopter at the bottom of this post. HOMEROOM DIARIES […]

Just Call My Name by Holly Goldberg Sloan | Book Review

I feel like I have come full circle in reviewing the sequel to I’ll Be There, titled Just Call My Name. This book is a direct sequel, taking place a few months after the events of the first book, and just like the first one, I totally cried because I am such a dork and because I have all these sappy feelings about family and friends and the little things in life.

Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando | Book Review

I have to say, Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando both takes me back and simultaneously makes me feel old. I think many of us who have gone off to college have been through the whole mysterious roommate tradition – where you are assigned a stranger and you are all nervous for what is to […]

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock | Matthew Quick | Book Review

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick is one hell of a book. I read Quick’s latest young adult book on my iPhone in the span of two days. I legit could not put my phone down for a second, it was so good. In fact, at one juncture, when the book slashed my heart […]

What Happens Next | Colleen Clayton | Book Review

I am sort of surprised at myself for not reading What Happens Next by Colleen Clayton sooner, given my interest in books that relate to the things I currently teach about. However, I am a firm subscriber in the better late than never mantra. ALSO! April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, so it is the perfect […]

Rock On Denise Vega Book Review

Books with music as their main theme are hard for me to resist. They take me back to a time when I was a teen in choir, marching band and learning to play guitar (mind you I was not good at any of these things). Also, like most people with a pulse, I like music. […]