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  • My Favorite Half-Night Stand

    My Favorite Half-Night Stand

    I’ve never been a huge “romance” reader but now that I’ve discovered what I will call the rom-com genre that is Christina Lauren, I’m obsessed.

  • The Poet X

    The Poet X

    My grad school class on YA literature asks us to read an “award winning YA book from 2017, 18 or 19” and I knew I wanted to read The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

  • The Continent: Original ARC

    The Continent: Original ARC

    My YA literature class this spring asks us to read a “banned or challenged book” that we haven’t read, and coincidentally, right around that time I won a Twitter book giveaway and a signed, original ARC of the Continent, before the rewrite, landed on my doorstep. I couldn’t help myself.

  • When We Caught Fire

    When We Caught Fire

    Set against the backdrop of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, When We Caught Fire is a historical romance with a love triangle, an impending wedding, a lot of talk about “society” and a great ominous foreboding sense about the whole thing.

  • For Better and Worse

    For Better and Worse

    I love a good murder, but could I execute the perfect one and get away with it? Probably not. But Natalie and Will are going to try

  • What Waits in the Woods

    What Waits in the Woods

    It’s a little spooky, kind of scary, makes me never want to camp ever, and wow, I’m glad I read it. 

  • Roomies

    Roomies

    I’ve never been big on “romances” or even “rom-coms” but wow am I addicted to Christina Lauren books right now

  • Dear Committee Members

    Dear Committee Members

    I’m a big fan of the idea of satire, but I find myself reluctant to seek it out. When I heard Julie Schumacher on the Folger Library podcast discussing her latest book, The Shakespeare Requirement, though, my interest was peaked.

  • Lies We Told

    Lies We Told

    In my quest to finish all of my BOTM books and because I love the color purple, I finally picked up Lies We Told and wow, was I engrossed.

  • The Library Book

    The Library Book

    As a student in a graduate program of library science, I felt weirdly called to pick up this book. I’d heard a lot of chatter about it, so I downloaded the audiobook and started off on my adventure into the Los Angeles Central Library.

  • Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life

    Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life

    I am unsure of why I waited so long to read (listen to) this memoir by the Bush twins, but wow, it has saved me from an audiobook slump and crops are growing

  • Bonfire

    Bonfire

    It’s part legal thriller, part corruption case, part typical drunk-woman-dealing-with-issues-mystery, and I loved it. I read it in one foul swoop.