My Thoughts: It is so rare that I read a book that has me left in tears and astounded by the time I have finished it, yet I also want to start it all over again because I am POSITIVE that I have missed things. The Absolute Book is one of those books. At 653 […]
Waiting For Wednesday: Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life
I don’t read a lot of nonfiction, it’s just something that for the most part doesn’t interest me. But Ali Wong is a goddess, so this is my exception. Actually essay collections like this tend to be my exception. Ali Wong’s heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while […]
Blog Tour: I Am Change
They told her that her body belonged to men and her mind didn’t matter. They were wrong. “What if I don’t want to marry?” Lillian held her breath. She had never said the words out loud. “Not want to marry?” Her aunt frowned. “What else would you do?” Set in a Ugandan village, Lilian has learned to […]
REVIEW: Starworld
Sam Jones and Zoe Miller have one thing in common: they both want an escape from reality. Loner Sam flies under the radar at school and walks on eggshells at home to manage her mom’s obsessive-compulsive disorder, wondering how she can ever leave to pursue her dream of studying aerospace engineering. Popular, people-pleasing Zoe puts […]
REVIEW: As Sweet As Honey
Chelsea Lambert is an unhappy receptionist, working for Honey, a glitzy dating website that she thinks is more than a bit sleazy. But she’s got bills to pay, especially if she wants to avoid her manipulative aunt’s clutches. She didn’t plan on spilling her views on Honey to the handsome stranger who rescued her from […]
REVIEW: The Legends Of Greemulax
Following in the tradition of J. K. Rowling and Roald Dahl, Kimmy Schmidt is an exciting new voice in middle-grade fantasy adventure. This debut will change the way boys and girls everywhere see the world — and each other! Penn dreads the day that he will start to become a monster, but it’s inevitable. The […]
REVIEW: Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution
Sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend, KC, has moved away; her good friend, Jake, is keeping his distance; and the resident bully has ramped up an increasingly vicious and targeted campaign to humiliate her. An over-the-top statue dedication planned for her sister, who died in Iraq, is almost too much […]