Tag: book review
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Reading a 1775 Cinderella Story
It’s a small book, just a smidge larger than my palm, and more rectangular. The cover was once maybe green, maybe brown, but has faded and molted in a way that looks almost mossy. It is bound together with twine woven up and down the spine. I’m at the Smathers Library on the University of…
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Crying in the Archives: “Hid in the Heart” and a Diary of Grief
I’ve spent three weeks of my summer in rainy, rainy, rainy (yes, it has rained every single day) Gainesville, Florida as the 2025 ALSC Bechtel Fellow, where I’ve been studying the papers of Margaret Sidney, a 19th century children’s novelist best known for The Five Little Peppers series. While I’ve been reading the books, my…
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3 Mini Reviews: Poison For Breakfast, We Are the BSC, and Matrix
Today, to save time and mental energy, I’m going to be doing 3 mini reviews for books I talked about during the 2021 Booklist Read n Rave Panel!
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Ninth House
I haven’t read anything else by Leigh Bardugo, but this book was definitely a 5-star read for me.
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To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Book and Movie Review
How did I miss To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and it’s two sequels for so long? How did they never end up on my TBR pile until TATBILB hit Netflix and I binge-watched it TWICE in one day.
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
Final Girls meets The Storied Life of AJ Fikry when a death at this Colorado bookstore leads one bookseller into questions of her past, puzzles within cut-up books, and an answer to the tragedy that has haunted her for life.
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Eliza and Her Monsters
Eliza’s kind of a big deal online, as in web-comic famous, but no one knows who she really is. Until she mets Wallace: a real-life friend, and maybe more, who doesn’t yet know how that the creator of the web comic he writes fanfiction for is sitting right next to him at the lunch table
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Read Harder: Childrens’ Classics Published Before 1980
Stay atop of your reading challenges, slay your TBR pile, and check off this prompt on the BookRiot Read Harder challenge by reading a children’s classic published before 1980
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An American Marriage
If Oprah picked it as her book club selection it has to be great, right? Right.
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The Young Queens
The world of Three Dark Crowns is back with this prequel novella that gives us insight into the lives of the three queens before they had to start attempting to kill each other.
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The Power
The Power, explores what we think we know about gender roles, the human body and the human condition, and imagines a world you want to read more and more about.
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Lies She Told
I love a good domestic noir novel, and Lies She Told is the perfect read for writers! Liza is a “romantic suspense” writer, which basically means she writes domestic noir, and she is under pressure from her editor to write a new book, and a successful one at that, in 30 days to make up…
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