“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain”

  • Monday’s Not Coming

    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.

  • Author Spotlight: Danielle Rollins

    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.

  • 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.

  • 2019 ALA Award Winners

    2019 ALA Award Winners

    The ALA announced all the major winners for our favorite awards, like the Printz, The Newbery, the Caledecott, and more.

  • February 2019 Releases

    February 2019 Releases

    What a stacked book month!

  • Author Spotlight: Ashley Elston

    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. 

  • 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.

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