Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold is a story of family. It follows Maggie Chen, an average high school girl, living an average life until one day, while going through her father’s last effects she uncovers a piece of information which sets her world spinning. Coupled with this information is the possibility that her father may […]
Review of You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe by Christopher Potter
March 5, 2010
Reading You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe by Christopher Potter will make you sexier. I know, what an outrageous claim to make, but it’s true. Why? Because intelligent, smart, well-informed people are sexy. I won’t lie, I struggled through You Are Here by Christopher Potter, as it is full of complex subject […]
Review of Everything Here Is The Best Thing Ever by Justin Taylor
March 3, 2010
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, […]