“Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved.” -M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts Melanie is brought to a school room everyday at gunpoint, wheeled into a room with other kids that are just like her. They’re all under heavy guard, strapped into their chairs, and surrounded by a constantRead More
Character Playlist: Augustus Waters
Awhile back, I created a playlist for Hazel Grace, and I decided that it was high time that I created one for her love, Augustus Waters. Augustus Waters, the beautiful, heart-throb level creation of John Green, whose story is woefully tragic, this playlist is for you. (Spoilers included, though if you haven’t read The FaultRead More
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Too Close for Comfort
*Minor spoilers ahead* I eagerly anticipated the released of The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu for months; it is probably one of my favorite books, it provided a basis for my thesis on dystopia, and the trailers that were being released were spin-chilling. So far, it hasn’t disappointed (except for the fact that it’s not being releasedRead More
Review: History Is All You Left Me
“History is nothing. It can be recycled or thrown away completely. It isn’t this sacred treasure chest I mistook it to be. We were something, but history isn’t enough to keep something alive forever.” -Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me Griffin doesn’t know how to cope with his best friend and ex-boyfriend, Theo,Read More
Character Playlist: Park
Music is integral to the plot of Eleanor and Park, as without it, Eleanor and Park would have never met. A few months ago, I made a playlist for Eleanor; I though it was high time that I made one for Park as well! Without further ado, a playlist inspired by Park, one that IRead More
Review: Goodbye Days
“For the most part, you don’t hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.” –Goodbye Days, Jeff Zentner Carver Briggs believesRead More
Review: The Sun Is Also a Star
“We’re kindling amid lightning strikes, a lit match and dry wood, fire danger signs and a forest waiting to be burned.” -Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star Natasha is a scientist. She has always believed in facts and figures, not in fate and destiny. And definitely not in love. Especially when her familyRead More
50 Best YA Books
As some (or most) of you may know, I am interning at Booklist in Chicago until the the end of May. In trying not to think about what’s going to happen when that internship is over, I’ve been back at the blogging, trying to up my content on other social media sites and create more postsRead More
The 2017 Reading Challenge
While perusing Pinterest today, trying to figure out ways to promote my latest review, I came across the POPSUGAR 2017 Reading Challenge. Yes, I realize we are already a quarter of the way through 2017. But some of the books I’ve read check off some of the things on this list, and I thought itRead More
Review: The Hate U Give
“Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.” -Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give Starr Carter is situated between two different worlds: the prep school she attends and the poor neighborhood she lives in, overrun by gangs. The two worlds collide when StarrRead More
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