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  • 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.

  • Author Spotlight: Kieran Scott

    Author Spotlight: Kieran Scott

    Kieran Scott (also known by her pen name Kate Brian) is an author I was obsessed with in high school. The Private series drew me in like nothing else, and once I discovered that Kate Brian was a pen name, I started looking at the work of Kieran Scott under her own name

  • 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

  • Author Spotlight: Lysa Terkeurst

    Author Spotlight: Lysa Terkeurst

    It’s a new year and maybe a new you, or a new version of you, or you’re just trying to make some changes. We all do it, even if we don’t realize it.

  • 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

  • December Reading Recap

    December Reading Recap

    2018 is over and it’s time to look back over the month of December.

  • Author Spotlight: Brad Meltzer

    Author Spotlight: Brad Meltzer

    If you love thrills and politics and history, you’re going to love Meltzer’s books. 

  • 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.

  • January 2019 Releases

    January 2019 Releases

    2019 is going to be a HUGE year for books and I’m so excited.