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Oct 12, 20202 min read

Review: Everything I Thought I Knew by Shannon Takaoka

Everything I Thought I Knew is an ambitious, genre-bending, unique young adult novel

Sep 27, 20202 min read

Celebrate the Freedom to Read!

Banned Books Week is here! Celebrate literary freedom with some scandalous reads!

Sep 26, 20203 min read

Review: Girls in the Moon by Janet McNally

5/5 stars “Secrets, my mother told me once, are just stories turned inside out.” My heart is so warm and full right now. I feel like I...

Sep 25, 20202 min read

Review: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Arthur Golden's prose is stunning, there's no denying, but talk about tedious! Don't get me wrong, I adored the story, but it is just so wor

Sep 22, 20201 min read

Review: Hope and Other Punchlines by Julie Buxbaum

4/5 stars This was a book I got for free at a book festival and not one I would have ordinarily picked out (shout out to whoever was...

Sep 22, 20201 min read

Review: The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life by Dani Jansen

Cute, queer, and fluffy!

Sep 21, 20202 min read

Review: You Are Invited: A Ghost Story by Sarah A. Denzil

Talk about atmospheric!

Sep 20, 20204 min read

Review: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

5/5 stars The truth was unconfined, unadorned. There was no poetic language to it, no yellow butterflies, no epic floods. There wasn't a...

Sep 17, 20201 min read

Review: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

4.5 stars I went into this book fairly confident I was going to love it: it was exactly the kind of book I like, with a complicated and...

Sep 16, 20203 min read

Review: Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite

4/5 stars I enjoyed this book! I really did! I was pretty much hooked from the first page, drawn into the story, and I never felt bored...

Sep 15, 20202 min read

Review: 10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston

4/5 stars This was absolutely the cutest book!! It's a relatively light read that was perfect for the holidays because there is lots of...

Sep 14, 20203 min read

Review: You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson

This was so incredibly midwestern and I loved every minute of it.

Sep 13, 20204 min read

Review: Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira

5/5 stars(!!) “I think a lot of people want to be someone, but we are scared that if we try, we won't be as good as everyone imagines we...

Sep 10, 20202 min read

Review: Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore

2/5 stars This was such a disappointing read. I have loved all of Anna-Marie McLemore's books so far. I have adored their lush prose,...

Sep 4, 20202 min read

Review: Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon

it's hard to create a solid romance in a day when characters have spent years hating each other, but rachel lynn soloman did it.

Sep 4, 20203 min read

Review: By the Book by Amanda Sellet

that sentence was annoying as all hell wasn't it? admit it, it was. picture this: an entire 300 page novel written like that sentence.

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