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 […]
Wintertown | Stephen Emond | Book Review
March 31, 2014
I feel a bit like an odd girl out when it comes to Wintertown by Stephen Emond because it turns out most of my friends were neutral about it and I, personally, LOVED it. I began reading Wintertown after finishing the super intense, super long The Lies Of Locke Lamora in need of an intensely different book. You see, I […]
Jessica Darling’s It List #1 | Megan McCafferty | Book Review
February 19, 2014
It thrills me to no end that middle school girls are going to get to grow up with Jessica Darling. Somehow, this gives me optimism for the future. Like many of you, I did not read the Jessica Darling books until high school — well, for me, the were published in high school and I […]
Boy21 | Matthew Quick | Book Review
January 30, 2014
I cannot believe that I’ve read three Matthew Quick books in ONE year. That seems like kind of an indulgence for me. You see, typically I might read one, MAYBE two books by an author within a year but never three. Yet, I could not resist Quick’s books. He’s got this writing style that just […]
Unbreakable | Kami Garcia | Book Review
November 26, 2013
I think that I am easily convinced, or at least easily worn down when it comes to what books I read and when. I put Unbreakable by Kami Garcia into my SOONER rather than LATER pile, and then eventually my Readathon pile because I had received a copy of it in the mail with a bag […]