Lovers of nerdy YA — this one’s for you. Trixie Watson and her friends are proud nerds who attend a school that puts a lot of academic pressure on its students. They handle it well (for the most part), and spend their precious free time making cosplay and reading comic books. Trixie’s thrown together with her sworn enemy, Ben West, when one of her friends starts dating one of his. The nerd references get just a bit heavy-handed throughout this novel, but overall I really enjoyed […]
Where Necromancy isn’t so bad
I listen to a lot of audio books because I have a long commute that often becomes long as the Washington DC subway system is falling apart and if one thing goes wrong they tend to snowball and the next thing you know your 30 minute trip is an hour and a half. I didn’t pay attention to who was narrating Sabriel, the first book in a series by Garth Nix, so I was delighted to discover it was read by Tim Curry. He definitely adds […]
“The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rolwing, Jim Dale (narrator)
*Note: This review was completed in 2017 before the author’s views towards our trans siblings began to be widely known. My reading experience was what it was and these reviews will remain up, but it should be noted that I find her TERF values abhorrent, which have only become more clear over time, and her doubling down in Summer 2020 has made the decision to walk away from her as a creative force the only acceptable choice for me. I will no longer be supporting […]
“People don’t want to think about it.’ ‘I can see why,’ I said. ‘It makes my head hurt.’”
I downloaded this after reading Ellesfena’s review, and enjoyed it immensely. It’s an odd little book, but comes together beautifully at the end. I literally got goosebumps at the big reveal, when everything finally made sense. “I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you’re gone and there’s no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that […]
“I was maybe the only person to ever have his imaginary friend made real.”
3.5 stars English teenage boy James “Jamie” (although he really would prefer it if you didn’t call him that, even if NO ONE seems to listen to him) Watson has been given a scholarship to a preppy boarding school in Connecticut, not far away from where his father lives with his new family. He’s rather excited about the chance to meet another of the students there, though, the already famous Charlotte Holmes. James and Charlotte’s great-great-great-grandfathers were one of the most famous pairings in history, […]
A stunning debut about police brutality and teenagers.
As you all know, I’ve been trying to expand my diverse books knowledge, and The Chancellor recommended a few that he thought would be great companion pieces to one of my new YA favorites, All American Boys. I’ve already read and reviewed Kekla Magoon’s How It Went Down, and today, I finished Angie Thomas’s extraordinary debut, The Hate U Give. The novel begins when our protagonist Starr witnesses her childhood best friend Khalil being shot by a police officer while she sits in the passenger […]
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