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  • The 57 Bus

    The 57 Bus

    The 57 Bus is true crime meets social justice meets great reporting.

  • Bad Blood

    Bad Blood

    I couldn’t wait any longer to get my hands on this book, one of the most frequent “best of 2018” books

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 23 Books I Read in 2018 But Didn’t Review and Why

    23 Books I Read in 2018 But Didn’t Review and Why

    I created this blog with the sole purpose of reviewing what I read so I’ll remember it and can help others decide where to best spend their reading time, but I’m not perfect.

  • 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.