While Mrs May is checking her students’ homework, she notices that Jet hasn’t managed to write down the letters of the alphabet. Instead of providing a familiar excuse, Jet offers Mrs May an elaborate story about how every letter happened to leave his page while he was walking to school that morning. The Day That … Continue reading Picture Book Review: The Day That A Ran Away by B.C.R. Fegan
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a … Continue reading Big Book Review: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
In partnership with We Need Diverse Books, thirteen of the most recognizable, diverse authors come together in this remarkable YA anthology featuring ten short stories, a graphic short story, and a one-act play from Walter Dean Myers never before in-print. Careful--you are holding fresh ink. And not hot-off-the-press, still-drying-in-your-hands ink. Instead, you are holding twelve … Continue reading Fresh Ink Anthology Edited by Lamar Giles
On a floating junkyard beneath a radiation sky, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Eve isn’t looking for secrets—she’s too busy looking over her shoulder. The robot gladiator she’s just spent six months building has been reduced to a smoking wreck, and the only thing keeping her Grandpa from the grave was the … Continue reading Book Review: Lifel1k3 by Jay Kristoff
The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in … Continue reading Book Review: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
In a world where women have no rights, sisters Serina and Nomi Tessaro face two very different fates: one in the palace, the other in prison. Serina has been groomed her whole life to become a Grace - someone to stand by the heir to the throne as a shining, subjugated example of the perfect … Continue reading Review: Grace and Fury by Tracy Banghart
Hey y'all! It's Monday so it's time for another wrap-up and weekly TBR. I had a successful reading week last week even though I did not read seven books for 7 in 7 it really pushed me to get some things crossed off my TBR list that actually were a priority. Concurrently with 7 in … Continue reading What I Read, 7 in 7 and Dewey’s Wrap-up, and TBR
Hey y'all! I wanted to jump on here and do a quick TBR for the Dewey's 24 hour reverse readathon. The readathon begins today, Friday July 27 at 8pm EST and will end on Saturday July 28 at 8pm (click link here). Anyway, since I'm in the throes of the 7 in 7 Readathon I … Continue reading Dewey’s 24 Hour Reverse Readathon TBR
Hey y'all!! Yes I am doing another readathon. I will be participating in the 7 in 7 Readathon which begins today, July 23rd and runs through July 29th. The goal is to read 7 things in 7 days. Also, this weekend is Dewey's reverse readathon. Instead of the readathon starting on Saturday, it is starting … Continue reading What I Read, 24in48 Wrap-Up and 7in7 Readathon TBR!
Hey y'all! I didn't put up a What I Read post this week because I knew that I was participating in this readathon over the weekend and I really didn't read that much last week. I'm in the middle of a bunch, which brings me to my 24 in 48 TBR. The 24 in 48 … Continue reading Friday Reads and 24 in 48 TBR
