I’m late coming to Madeleine L’Engle’s The Time Quartet. I’ve heard about since college, but never was interested in reading the series. This year, the book club decided to do a Science Fiction read and needed some help selecting a title. This was one proposed by several of the members and ultimately won as the choice for November. This pushed me to jump and see what A Wrinkle in Time was all about. I had a mixed read of the novel. On one hand it […]
Christmas vacation=catch up on reviews.
The Chancellor had told me about Lucy and Linh as a new young adult novel, saying that the publishers had described it as Mean Girls meets Fresh off the Boat. I was instantly intrigued. Mean girl cliques are scary and interesting at the same time, and the person-of-color or immigrant angle is unique. Doubly so, since the novel and author are Australian. I wanted to see how this novel pushes this trope in a new direction. I dive into the full review on my blog.
One Sees Clearly Only with the Heart
Right after finishing and loving The Sun is Also a Star, I ran out to the library and got Nicola Yoon’s first novel, Everything, Everything. Though I didn’t love it quite as much as her second book, I thought it was engaging, moving, and well-constructed. I also can see Yoon starting to think through some minor themes that become major themes in The Sun is Also a Star. This novel is a love story, but it’s not your typical teen romance. Madeline Whittier, who is […]
Just as good as the first one, except for this one thing I hated.
This book would have been five stars for me, easy, if it wasn’t for this one thing I will talk about in the spoiler tagged section below. But for the most part, Crooked Kingdom (and the series as a whole) is a fun, character driven, well-written fantasy heist romp. This book is also technically YA, but it doesn’t really read like it (which I gather is different even from Bardugo’s previous series, which shares a universe with this one). I mean, the protagonists are all […]
What would you do, if you could do it all over again?
Like many of the books I read for my book club, I had not heard of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014) by Claire North, and I probably would not have chosen it on my own. It didn’t help that the Amazon page said this book was for eight to twelve year-old kids. Fortunately, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August turned out to be a thought-provoking and entertaining book. Harry August is a special kind of person, which he discovers in his second life. He […]
Double Cannonball!
My first double cannonball! It only took three years to work myself up to this goal and I can assure you that has everything to do with CBR and sticking it to cancer! The Sun is Also a Star was a wonderful book to hit a milestone with. Nicola Yoon is a new (to me at least) voice in YA fiction that has been racking up awards for her charming books. Natasha is a Jamaican illegal immigrant who is set to be deported after her father got […]
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