You want a book that brings crocodile tears from sadness and joy, read I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan. This is arguably one of the best contemps I’ve read all year.
Nerds Heart YA: You got blood on yo’ face You big disgrace: Five Flavors Of Dumb vs. Toads And Diamonds
August 6, 2011
Nerds Heart YA bracket. Which will move on? Five Flavors Of Dumb by Antony John or Toads And Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson. Click to find out.
Lola And The Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins Book Review
August 3, 2011
Contemporary romance has a new queen and her name is Stephanie Perkins. She masterfully concocted swoons in Anna And The French Kiss and manages to kick it up a notch in Lola And The Boy Next Door.
This Book Hit Me Like A Train
August 2, 2011
If I Stay by Gayle Forman is a moving book in which Mia must choose between life or death after a horrific car accident.
Never Sit Down In A Hoopskirt by Crickett Rumley Book Review
July 21, 2011
Never Sit Down In A Hoopskirt is a novel that was hilariously penned by Cricket Rumley about southern debutantes. Whenever I read a book set in the south, I always feel the need to talk about how exotic the south is to me. Seriously, t he only southern place I have been is Orlando, Florida […]
Family by Micol Ostow Book Review
July 7, 2011
Family by Micol Ostow is a free verse fictionalization of the Charles Manson murders. The story is told from the point of view of Melinda Jensen, a troubled 17 year old who desperately seeks affection. As she is a runaway, she sleeps on park benches. And so while passed out on a park bench she meets […]