This book is festival of horrors. If I could give it negative five stars I would. If for some terrible reason you want to read it don’t read this there will be spoilers. It’s a YA novel and as such there is a certain amount of teenage angst that has to be begrudgingly accepted. I understand that there is a formula to YA novels I have read quite a few myself, but I had just read two pretty lengthy nonfiction books, 100 pages of microbiology, […]
Dear Nobody
Mary Rose grew up in the 1990s. A time where the book reminds you that you documented your life in a diary instead of on social media. In Dear Nobody, we read from Mary Rose’s diary, in which she titles each entry with “Dear Nobody.” In her diary, we see her struggle with illness, abuse, arrests, addiction to alcohol and drugs, and rape. Through the diary, we see Mary Rose struggle with relationships. After moving to a new town, she struggles to make new friends. […]
“Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them…”
I downloaded The Beginning of Everything pretty much immediately after finishing Schneider’s Extraordinary Measures. About 3 chapters in, reading the banter between Ezra and his former best friend, I thought to myself: yeah, I’m going to like this one, too. Ezra Faulkner has played tennis since he could walk, sits at the popular kids table at school and dates a cheerleader. He coasts by on his grades and gets away with a lot — including attending drunken parties with his friends. Then about two weeks before the end […]
Everything is terrible: Why I need to stop reading YA romance
I was yelling at this audiobook while I was driving, which was great because it distracted me from my usual road rage but bad because it made me look and feel crazy. Of course, today it’s a crazy world so strap in everybody. Let’s go for a hate ride. First, the synopsis: This (young adult) book is (supposedly) a play on the classic Arabian Nights. It features Khalid, an 18-year-old Caliph (i.e. king) in the kingdom of Khorasan who marries a new bride every […]
“Being temporary doesn’t make something matter any less, because the point isn’t for how long, the point is that it happened.”
Extraordinary Means starts out as just the story of a boy and a girl meeting again at boarding school — 17 year old overachiever Lane, and a girl named Sadie that he vaguely remembers from summer camp years ago. But we quickly learn that what appears to be a boarding facility is actually a sanitarium, and Lane and Sadie (along with dozens of other teens) have been quarantined here due to their incurable strain of tuberculosis. “Everything of who I was and who I wanted to […]
Another review of The Sun is Also a Star
I’m joining CBR for the first time with a book that’s absolutely amazing. I know it’s been reviewed a few times on this platform, but I thought I’d add my own review since I am a teacher an recommending it for our summer reading program. So many feels! This is a young adult book with some heavy themes. On the surface, it’s a romance between Natasha, a Jamaican born illegal immigrant facing deportation, and Daniel, a first born second son of Korean parents. The two, […]
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