A plague has killed 98% of the world’s population. Eve is preparing for her graduation ceremony from her all-girls school in the middle of nowhere, after which she’ll cross a bridge and begin learning a trade, when she discovers that her teachers haven’t been totally forthcoming with her about the world she lives in or what’s across the bridge. Things I liked a lot about this book: So far there’s not too much of the Chosen One trope, which is a huge YA dystopian trilogy […]
An absolute must-read for parents of young kids.
I put off reading this for months because I figured it would just add to my already out of control mom guilt. When my now almost two year old was born, I was very, very, very serious about no screen time. It was way at the top of my parenting priorities list. Then it turned out that my kid was what’s called high needs and would struggle with a lot of sensory issues and a tendency to get more overwhelmed than most toddlers as the […]
It’s weird to review a book we’ve all read.
What can I say about a book that’s already been read by just about everyone interested in reading it? I read this when it came out six years ago, and it was assigned for my lit class so I read it again. I’ll admit I was annoyed by this at first. I took the class to force myself to read literature I wouldn’t on my own and I don’t have any trouble finding books like The Hunger Games, but I think they just stuck this […]
Glenn Beck’s fever dream.
Guys. I can’t with this book. It may have actually given me an existential crisis. I don’t even know how to unpack this, or if I should. I’m a practicing Catholic Democrat, so I guess I was bound to have some feelings about this book, since it’s from a “Catholic perspective.” I… just… wow. This lovely book is a “modern retelling” of Rapunzel. An upstanding yet mischievous young Catholic lad scales a tower and finds a young girl. I’m going to spoil a couple things […]
Mediocre but enjoyable.
Sometimes college instructors who have a lot of papers to grade will use a method in which they find a paper that is a good representative of each letter grade and then group other papers accordingly. If I were to do that with books, this one would be a perfect three star example. The premise of NEED is that a new social media website pops up and starts sending invitations to the students of one particular high school. If they join and invite some number […]
This book was an absolute punch in the gut.
My God, this book. It’s so hard to review classics, which admittedly is not often an issue for me. My reading history contains almost no classics. I didn’t go to school after the fifth grade, so I was never assigned any for school, and although I’ve always been an avid reader, I’ve never picked up classics on my own. I took a lit class last semester, and every single assigned reading, I thought “Well, I’m going to hate this.” Every single time, it totally blew […]
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