I read this book all in one go, so that should tell you something right there. It’s Canadian teenager Hermione Winters’ senior year. She’s co-captain of her school’s cheer team, and she’s very serious about it. For her and her best friend Polly, cheer is a sport, and she is an athlete. In fact, for her small town school, the Palermo cheer team is the best sports team they have. But at cheer camp, right before the start of senior year, Hermione is drugged and […]
These girls are all my squishy muffins.
I didn’t quite love this second volume of Giant Days as much as I did the first one, but this is still an unbelievably fun series and I can’t wait for Vol. 3. Vol. 2 covers issues #5-9 of the series, from a winter ball through exams, dating crises, and what happens when you watch too many episodes of Friday Night Lights in a row. Crotchety Susan is for once the only one having reliable sexytimes, while Daisy is going through a questioning phase, and […]
How can something so weird be so unmemorable?
So I have a confession team. I’m seriously behind on my book reviews. Like ridiculously behind. Like my to-review pile has morphed from an achievable goal to a series of personal insults. Even the heading doesn’t respect me. Way harsh, Tai All of this to say, when I realized my next book to review was this book I finished weeks ago, called The Teleportation Accident, I had one reaction. A quick scramble to Wikipedia gave me this blurb. From the author of the acclaimed Boxer, Beetle comes […]
We are waiting in the wings for you
This book was really, really weird. I’m still not sure whether I liked it. My regular gauge for whether or not I liked a book is if I’d read it again and I’m just not sure about this one. It was an intriguing story and did keep me guessing about where it was going. So there’s that. I also give it a lot of credit for just being really fucking weird. Let your freak flag fly, book. Let it fly. Like. For real. I’m not […]
WHAT! IS! THIS! BOOK! IT! MADE! ME! CRY!
Spoiler alert: Lily is going to break your heart. This is something the book lets you know in the first few pages, so I don’t feel too bad revealing it. But she is going to keep breaking your heart for all the hundreds of pages with her deeply dachshund (aka doxie) ways of being. The deep bond with her person, the intelligence and stubbornness, the territorial barking, and the exuberance are all deeply endearing. Rowley captured that unique, persistent doxie bark so that hearing Lily’s “voice” was […]
Buckle. The Fuck. Up.
Like Tyrion Lannister, I used to be a cynic. I thought it possible there were not truly original ideas left in fiction. I used to think, after so many years of reading like it was my job, there weren’t any books left that would knock me on my ass, keep me awake until 4 a.m. when I had to work in the morning, cause me to be so engrossed that I literally did not hear my friends trying to get my attention. I thought I […]
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