Everything , Everything was one of those books that really captured how universally appealing and wonderful a YA love story can be while making me really think long after I finished the last page. Madeleine and Olly couldn’t be more different, but that’s the beginning of many great love stories, isn’t it? While […]
Publisher: Random House
Average Rating: 3.95
Dr. Seuss Classic Celebratory Tour!
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen this particular Dr. Seuss book, so I sat down with my kids and we tried our hand at saying a few of these tongue twisters. Oh Say Can You Say? is good for early readers and, in our case, it ended up making us laugh as we […]
Review + Giveaway: Damage Done
It’s difficult to write a review about a book like Damage Done because the story really hinges on its twists and I don’t want to give any hints about it. Julia’s twin was the shooter in a bloody an horrific school shoot from which Julia was the only living victim. Her family’s attempt to […]
Review + Giveaway: Stone Rider By David Hofmeyr
I don’t usually pay too much attention to the comparisons that publishers make when describing books, but in the case of Stone Rider, Mad Max meets The Road is a very accurate description. With a bare bones narrative style, Stone Rider tells the story of three riders who take on a no holds barred race […]
Ex Libris Audio: Red Rising
There are books that lend themselves well to the audio format, and some that are perhaps better when read. I think that Red Rising falls into the latter category. The extreme details and references to locations (the print version had a map) made me wish I had the book. I found myself vacillating between fascination […]
Ex Libris Audio: The Martian
I could go on for hours and hours about how well Andy Weir captured NASA. The bureaucracy, the passion of the engineers, the disdain the astronauts have for being told what to do…..all of it created a world that, while set in a place where NASA was adequately funded, is still realistic. At its core, […]
YOLO Juliet and SRSLY Hamlet
It’s not often that you are pitched a book that is written entirely in text conversations and emojis, so this review isn’t going to be conventional, but I think everything worked out ok. My English teacher friends often ask their students to put Shakespeare into the modern speak of teenagers as a […]
Blog Tour: Charmed By Michelle Krys
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Charmed by Michelle Krys, which will be available from Delacorte Press on May 26th! Michelle was kind enough to answer some of my questions, which I put in a ‘this or that’ format. Don’t forget to check out the other stops on the tour and […]
The Girl At Midnight By Melissa Grey
I always love books that take place in a world that is completely different, yet exists right under our noses. The Avicen and the Drakharin live adjacent to the mortal word. They move within it, if they have to, but they have very little use for humans or human problems. Their ancient dislike for […]
Blog Tour: The Girl At Midnight
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Girl At Midnight by Melissa Grey! I am excited to share an interview with Melissa, but first let’s hear a little bit about the book: The Girl At Midnight is a fantasy that takes place in, around, and under New York City. What made […]