Review: Once and for All by Sarah Dessen

Published: Viking, 2017 Genre: YA My rating: 4 stars Description: “Louna, daughter of famed wedding planner Natalie Barrett, has seen every sort of wedding: on the beach, at historic mansions, in fancy hotels and clubs. Perhaps that's why she's cynical about happily-ever-after endings, especially since her own first love ended tragically. When Louna meets charming, …

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Top 5 Young Adult Contemporaries

Hi all, It’s probably pretty clear that I read mostly YA contemporary. I’ve been wanting to do another Top 5 for a while now, so I figured what better to do a Top 5 about? This is a mixture of both older and newer releases – my favorite YA contemporaries since I started reading YA …

Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Series:Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #1 Published: Quirk, 2011 Genre: YA fantasy My rating: 3/5 stars Description: “A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. …

Spring 2018 TBR

Hi all, Time for another TBR! Thankfully, I was able to get through nearly everything on my Winter TBR. With this being my final semester, and me taking an extra class to graduate on time, it seems I won’t have a whole lot of time for pleasure reading this semester. Still, I’m taking a young …

Winter 2017/18 Wrap-up & Faves

Hi all, The end of another season, another wrap-up and faves. As I write this, it’s mid-January and I’m enjoying my break, but as it gets posted now in February, I imagine I am stressed in the midst of my final semester as an undergrad…but so close to graduation! If all goes well, I’ll be …

Review: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Published: Balzer + Bray, 2017 Genre: YA contemporary My rating: 5/5 stars Description: “Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at …

Review: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Published: Haymarket, 2014 Genre: Nonfiction, essay/memoir My rating: 4/5 stars Description: “In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and …