The problem with reading beloved children’s classics as an adult, especially having not read them as a child, is that you tend to find the outdated bits. Not outdated in the form of technology, which is also apparent, but in character development. The children seem to do what they are told without questioning here. Today’s literative children are a lot more inquisitive, and also less trusting. And the female characters are stronger and more developed. Fantasy and children’s literature have both evolved since this was […]
“But some men should be marked. I’m fit for that task. And I don’t feel bad…”
The Female of the Species is another fantastic book from the fantastic Mindy McGinnis. She wrote the dystopian Not a Drop to Drink (Also its follow-up In a Handful of Dust, which I haven’t read yet) and the historical A Madness So Discreet. Her latest book is completely different, a contemporary novel. Alex’s older sister Anna was kidnapped and brutally murdered. They didn’t punish the man who killed her. Alex took it upon herself to punish him. Nobody knows it was her. There is a […]
“Jell-O monkeys!” she squealed, and wiggled her fingers in front of her mouth.
Save I was on an upbeat, fun and funny kick over the summer (Which was broken a bit by the book that follows this), and this seemed like the perfect way to keep it up. It’s about a girl named Beatrice who likes math and is a bit of a control freak. She isn’t popular and everyone knows her as Math Girl. Beatrice thinks the new school year will be different for her and her friends. For instance, she finally has a boyfriend. Jesse ends […]
A perfectly serviceable start to a YA trilogy.
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 […]
Poems for young women
Since I had read The Gutsy Girl by Caroline Paul, Amazon recommended Courage: Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls (2014) ed. by Karen Finneyfrock, Rachel McKibbens, and Mindy Nettifee. I don’t know how advanced Amazon’s software is for these kinds of recommendations, but it worked. I was intrigued and ordered the book from my library. This book is very different from The Gutsy Girl, which is a story of Paul’s adventures and encouragement for younger girls to get out there and do things. Courage, on the other hand, is […]
If It Weren’t for the F-Bombs, I’d Teach This in a Heartbeat
Since reading Me Before You, I’ve become very distrusting of authors who write characters with disabilities without having that experience themselves. This is not the case with Mark Haddon and his character Christopher who is on the autism spectrum in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Mr. Haddon has had some experience working with young people on the autism spectrum which informed his formation of Christopher, but Christopher’s disability is never the center of the novel. Instead, Christopher’s unique perspective is merely […]
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