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Book Review: The President’s Daughter
My friend Jasmine loves Ellen Emerson White‘s The President’s Daughter. Buoyed by Jasmine’s enthusiasm, I put in a request through ILL. When the book came in, I texted her, all excited about it. Which...
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Book Review: 8th Grade Superzero
“Think about it. You don’t have to do something BIG. Just something right.” 8th Grade Superzero by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich is about Reggie Garvey McKnight, a kid who has been spending his days...
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Book Review: The Mark of Athena
Seriously, these monsters and gods were thousands of years old. Couldn’t they take a few decades off and let Percy live his life? I’m saying, though. Poor Percy. Finally reunited with Annabeth and, of...
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Book Review: Looking for Alibrandi
In my quest to consume all things Melina Marchetta (well, at least all contemporary realistic lit things), I sought out Looking for Alibrandi, the one book of hers I hadn’t read. This review will be...
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Book Review: Silver Sparrow
Mother didn’t ruin my childhood or anyone’s marriage. She is a good person. She prepared me. Life, you see, is all about knowing things. That is why my mother and I shouldn’t be pitied. Silver Sparrow...
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Top Ten Tuesday: Characters I Would Crush On
This week’s topic is characters I would crush on if I were also a fictional character. I decided to keep it fair and do half literary boyfriends and half literary girlfriends. Links go to my reviews or...
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Book Review: The Reece Malcolm List
Full disclosure: I am friends with the author. Full FULL disclosure: Reading The Reece Malcolm List by Amy Spalding was a very strange experience for me. For one thing, I do not personally know a lot...
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Book Review: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Like so many things Henry had wanted in life—like his father, his marriage, his life—it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn’t care, this was all he’d wanted. Something to hope for, and...
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Audiobook Review: Junie B. Jones Collection (Books 1-8)
Junie B. Jones (the book series and the character) is so great, you guys. SO GREAT. I wasn’t sure how she would fare on audiobook, but she is great there, too. Mostly because she acts as an excellent...
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Book Review: Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
The next time I say that I don’t like literary fiction, remind me how much I loved Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple. Just remind me, okay? Because I really kind of loved this book. Why did I...
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Book Review: Eleanor & Park
“You can be Han Solo,” he said, kissing her throat. “And I’ll be Boba Fett. I’ll cross the sky for you.” The next time I say that I don’t like literary fiction remind me that it’s my favorite genre of...
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Audiobook Revew: Holes
I’m currently watching the movie version of Holes, so I figure now is as good a time as any to review the audiobook (written by Louis Sachar, narrated by Kerry Beyer). Let me just start by saying the...
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Book Review: Belle Epoque
Before I get to the review, I just signed up for Bloglovin’, so feel free to follow my blog with Bloglovin. Which I know you could do anyway, but still. It’s, like, official now or something. Like any...
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Book Review: Book of a Thousand Days
Eventually I got myself up so I could write what Tegus said. To keep telling my story seems like the last bit of living I can still do. I read the hardback, but I love the paperback cover so much I’m...
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Book Review: The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance
I just decided that life was like a farmer standing in a field and a kid racing down the road on a Kawasaki, arguing about whether the fence posts are rushing by or standing still. Each thinking the...
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Book Reviews: Joan Bauer and Teen Work Ethic
Then I mentioned the part about being ignored for my age and put in a word for teenagers everywhere. “It happens a lot, Mrs. Gladstone. Our money is just as good as an adult’s, sometimes we’ve had to...
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Book Review: Fangirl
I just have to say up front that Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell is the type of story I love to read, and the type of story I want to see more of in YA lit. It’s about a girl who goes to college and has to...
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Recommendation Wednesday: The Colors of Madeleine Trilogy
Okay, it’s a bit presumptuous of me to recommend an entire trilogy when only two-thirds of the books are available to read, but I really liked A Corner of White and Cracks in the Kingdom absolutely...
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Recommendation Wednesday: Pointe
This week’s Recommendation Wednesday post is brought to you by Aarti’s A More Diverse Universe challenge. The parameters for the challenge are very simple: Read and review one book Written by a person...
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Recommendation Wednesday: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
Because, my dear friends, these twelve children have lived their entire lives without a public library. As a result, they have no idea how extraordinarily useful, helpful, and funful—a word I recently...
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