“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain”
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January 2019 Reading Recap
Wow, I started off 2019 at a sprint.
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Monday’s Not Coming
For my “realistic fiction” selection for my grad class on YA literature, I picked up an ARC I’d been starring at for awhile: Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany Jackson.
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Author Spotlight: Danielle Rollins
When I came across the ARC for Stolen Time on Edelweiss, I was immediately intrigued, and when I began looking at Danielle Rollins’ other work, I was sold.
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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.
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2019 ALA Award Winners
The ALA announced all the major winners for our favorite awards, like the Printz, The Newbery, the Caledecott, and more.
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February 2019 Releases
What a stacked book month!
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Author Spotlight: Ashley Elston
Here are all four books by Ashley Elston you can binge read if you like mysteries and complicated relationships and heightened high school drama.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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