The end of January is upon us already, can you believe it? The first month of 2018 has been a pretty uneventful one for me, except I did just get notification that my paper got accepted into the ChLA conference (woo!). Hopefully I’ll be going to Texas this June! Anyway, I’ve finished 11 books thisRead More
Review: Sex Criminals Vol. 1
“The bank’ll take everything you love sooner or later.” -Matt Fraction, Sex Criminals Suzie discovered her gift when she was in middle school: when she has sex, she stops time. After college, at a party, she meets a guy who has the same gift: Jon. To save the library that Suzie works at, the twoRead More
5 YA Books to Add to Your 2018 TBR
Young adult literature, as an industry, had a fantastic year last year. New authors debuted remarkable texts, like Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give, and well-established authors came out with new work, like John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down. I read a lot of fantastic books last year (you can check them out here!),Read More
Review: The Unwind Dystology
“In a perfect world, everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn’t a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.” –Unwind, Neal Shusterman Connor Lassiter’s parents have decided to unwind him for his 17th birthday. That is, the government is goingRead More
#TBT Review: Zarox
In order to catch up from reviews I didn’t complete last year, I’m going to start doing #tbt reviews every other Thursday, as there were a lot of books that I didn’t get to. I believe these books still need reviews, so to start, I’m reviewing Zarox, a book I received from Louis Smith onRead More
Review: The Raven King
“He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn’t want it to be over.” -Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King In the last book in the Raven Cycle, Blue and the Raven Boys are getting closer andRead More
Character Playlist: Ronan Lynch
Maggie Stiefvater has a way of writing characters that you know are going to pull at your heartstrings. I remember when I first read her Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy in high school, and there was something compelling about the story and the characters; the way that these characters just accept the supernatural, the magical inRead More
Review: Nemesis
“The world might be about to end, but what did I care? My world ended all the time.” -Brendan Reichs, Nemesis Since she was eight-years-old, Min has been murdered on all of her even birthdays, just to wake up again in a forest clearing completely unharmed. No matter what she does to stop it, theRead More
2017: A Year in Review
2017 was an interesting year for me. I moved to Chicago for an internship, traveled to England, read a lot, went to a children’s literature conference, and finally made a definitive decision in what career path I want to choose. It was a year of a lot of ups and downs, but I’m finally sureRead More
Review: Girl in Pieces
“That’s how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.” -Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces Charlie uses pain in order to forget all of the people that she’s lost over time. Her father, to the river. Her best friend. Your mother. Each loss pushes Charlie further to the edge, so she learns howRead More
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