A Wrinkle in Time is one of those books I read over and over as a child. Meg didn’t have magical abilities, or superhero strength. She was a girl, like me, who felt she didn’t belong. And in those pages I saw that my stubbornness and brain could be my biggest strengths. I believed, for … More Review: A Wrinkle in Time
This year is an uncontested garbage fire, y’all. From start to finish. I began the year by attending my grandfather’s funeral… on my birthday. And if I’d known that was a metaphor for how the whole 365 days were going to be I’d have gone back to bed. However. Here we are. Deep breaths. There were … More Top 10 YA books of 2016
I’m frankly kind of exhausted just trying to decide which topic to rant about. … More Roundup: Literary Girls I Want to Be My BFF
Title: Exit, Pursued by a Bear Author: E.K. Johnston Published: Dutton Books 2016 Recommended if you like: Cheerleading, hopeful survivor stories, Shakespeare, Veronica Mars Read-a-Like: All the Rage, Speak, Open Road Summer Rating: 6 out of 5 Golden Bear Mascots First Line: I start running after school. Y’all, I LOVED this book. Like I LOOOOVED it. I read it the second I … More Book Review: Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E.K. Johnston
It’s that time of year again. While everyone else is buying presents for Hanukkah and Christmas and baking cookies and whatnot, the book/librarian-type people are curating our Best Books of the Year lists. It’s one of my very favorite parts of my job: reading a lot and talking about those books with insightful, intelligent people. … More Top Ten Queer YA books of 2015
Title: What We Left Behind Author: Robin Talley Published: Harelequin Teen, 2015, 405 pages Recommended if you like: Books with Diverse Characters, Books set in college, Character driven stories, LGBTQIA+, Gender Identity exploration Read-a-Like: I am J, Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Not Otherwise Specified Rating: 5 out of 5 Top Hat Pendents First Line: Even before I saw her, it was … More Book Review: What We Left Behind by Robin Talley
Sidewalk Dancing is a wonderful glimpse into a life that is both refreshingly different and utterly familiar. Rating: 4.75/5 expensive bottles of perfume … More You Should Read This: Sidewalk Dancing by Letitia Moffitt
Mini Review: Gabi!! Be my BFF! And then can we travel back in time to give this book to my 17 year old self! Title: Gabi, A Girl In Pieces Author: Isabel Quintero Published: Cinco Puntos Press, 2014, 284 pages Recommended if you like: Books with Diverse Characters, Novels in journal form, Positive depiction of … More Book Review: Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
What’s up nerds?! ERMYGERD IT’S FALLLLLLLL!!! I mean… it’s the midwest so it could be 90 fucking degrees tomorrow… but at this particular moment in time, it is fall. Fall is happiness. It’s my favorite season. The only downside to fall is that it is followed by winter. But during fall not even that can … More Group Book Review
Title: Shadow play Author: Laura Lam Published: January 7th 2014 by Strange Chemistry, 400 pages Series: The Micah Grey Series Book 2 Recommended if you like: fantasy, steampunk, LGBTQ characters, magic shows, Rating: 5 out of 5 Glowing Penglass Domes Mini Review: I do magic now. Magic is cool. **Warning: Spoilers for the end of Pantomime** … More Book Review: Shadowplay by Laura Lam
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