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Alice doesn’t live here anymore

Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison

February 24, 2019 by Dusty Highway Leave a Comment

(My apologies this isn’t available in the US, not even on Kindle, though maybe there’s an audiobook? That’s never happened to me before!) I’ve struggled a bit with my review writing since about November last year, letting them slide just a little too long after I’ve finished the books and then letting my perfectionism slow me down once I do finally get around to writing. I get caught up, and then BAM! I’m four reviews behind again. That’s no place to be with a book […]

In the immortal words of Dorothy Zbornak, “If you have to ask, it does not matter.”

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

February 24, 2019 by Dusty Highway Leave a Comment

I’ve never been the type to read more than one book at a time, but earlier this year, I decided I should both spend less time online and read more poetry and philosophy and mythology and the like. I kept one book on my nightstand to read before bed, another by my desk to read in downtime during work instead of picking up my phone. And it worked! I’ve spent much less time online and more time reading, but this success also led to an […]

A heartbreaking YA mystery

Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

February 24, 2019 by ElCicco 5 Comments

“This is the story of how my best friend disappeared. How nobody noticed she was gone except me. And how nobody cared until they found her … one year later.” Thus opens this riveting YA novel which deals with the topic of missing girls of color and our criminal indifference to them. Winner of the 2019 Coretta Scott King Book Award/John Steptoe Award for New Talent, Monday’s Not Coming is the story of the disappearance of Monday Charles, an 8th grader from a tough Washington, […]

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Tell Me Everything by Sarah Enni

February 22, 2019 by scootsa1000 3 Comments

Last week, The Fug Girls had a book contest up on their site, and the book looked familiar to me. I almost always love the books that they recommend, so I wracked my brain trying to think of how I recognized this one…and then realized it was in my box of new releases for teen readers from work. I’m of two minds on this one. I get that I am not the demographic for this. There is a world of difference between YA fiction and […]

No Sophomore Slump Here

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

February 22, 2019 by ElCicco 2 Comments

On the NYT book list for Young Adult/Hard Cover, Angie Thomas reigns as queen. Her debut novel The Hate U Give has been at or near the top of the list for 103 weeks. It is currently number two. The number one spot is held by Angie Thomas’ follow up, On the Come Up. Thomas takes us back to the Garden Heights neighborhood but we see it from a different perspective this time. Brianna Jackson, known as Bri, is a teenager who lives immersed in the […]

Out March 12

Truth in Our Times by David E. McCraw

February 20, 2019 by Chris Leave a Comment

Disclaimer: The publisher sent me an ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review. I am also a subscriber to the Times. On the day I finished reading this ARC, the President of the United States called the New York Times an “enemy of the people,” and the Times itself carried an article about a reporter being detained and kicked out of Egypt. Additionally, the President tweeted support of a lawsuit against the Washington Post. And a supreme court judges wants the court to […]

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