I don’t consider myself a mystery reader, but every time I pick one up I end up enjoying it. Such was the case with The Affliction, which hovers in the cozy mystery category, although I’m not sure it really fits that mold. Maggie finds herself, in the course of helping a failing private school, […]
Category: 3.5 Birds
Turn It Up By Jen Calonita
A lesson that I have learned again and again in my life is that, when it comes to groups or teams, you are stronger together. This goes for friendships, romantic relationship, or even politics! In Turn It Up, I saw this theme reappear with a story about two girls whose friendship becomes fractured and one […]
Blog Tour: We Are Party People
Welcome to my stop on the tour for We Are Party People by Leslie Margolis. Once you’ve read my thoughts on this fun middle grade book, don;t forget to enter for a chance to win a finished copy and check out the other stops on the tour! We Are Party People […]
The Wardrobe Mistress by Meghan Masterson
The Wardrobe Mistress takes place during The French Revolution, a period of time that is often portrayed in a romantic way but was a time of great upheaval. Giselle is from a small town outside of Paris and is give the opportunity to serve Maria Antoinette as on of her wardrobe attendants. Basically, she was […]
The Spice Box Letters By Eve Makis
When I heard that The Spice Box Letters had a plot involving the Armenian Genocide, I had to read it immediately. My great grandfather was a witness to the genocide and his involvement in relief efforts has always been a part of my family’s collective history. The Spice Box Letters really took me inside […]
Flawed By Cecelia Ahern
As with many main characters dystopian stories, the first thing you know about Celestine is that she is a good kid. She follows the rules, she doesn’t make waves, and she has her life sort of arranged and planned out the way she wants it. However, you also see that this world is one […]
The Museum Of Heartbreak By Meg Leder
There are a lot of books about friendships breaking up and then coming back together again, but I like where The Museum of Heartbreak took this theme. Friendships change,and sometimes that change is messy. Sometimes that change means that things won’t go back exactly how they were, and that’s ok. I like the way this […]
A Week Of Mondays By Jessica Brody
One of my favorite movies of all times is Groundhog Day, which came out in the 90s. In that movie, a cynical and somewhat washed-up news anchor keeps repeating the same day over and over again. A Week of Mondays takes that same idea and sets in in high school in the life of Ellie, […]
Goldfish By Nat Luurtsema
It’s Olympics season and what better way to celebrate than to read a book about a girl who is good enough to get there. Goldfish might seem like your typical story about a girl who has Olympic dreams, but once you get into it you realize that it really starts at the point where those […]
Blog Tour + Giveaway: How To Hang A Witch
Being descended form a Mayflower family, I have always had a particular interest in the the first settlements of the Pilgrims. My one and only visit to Salem revealed that they do, in fact, capitalize on the town’s dark history. (I was there on Halloween. It was very interesting.) The weight of history lingers, or […]