Book Review: Where She Went
You know how sometimes you read a book, and it's kind of perfect, but you don't know it until you finish it, when you close it and think, "Wow, that was kind of perfect"?...
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Book Review: Level Up
To provide that boy with the life he has, I've had to eat much bitterness. He must learn to do the same. In Level Up by Gene Luen Yang (illustrated by Thien Pham), Dennis...
Book Review: Revolution
There is only one thing I fear now--love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us. Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly manages...
Nostalgia: If This Is Love, I’ll Take Spaghetti
I've always considered myself a very level-headed sort of person. While my friends struggle through adolescence alternating between moods of rapture and despair, I sail along...
Book Review: Lemonade Mouth
I may not have been the brightest bulb in my family, but you don't have to be a genius to know that it's easier to get forgiveness than permission. Look, we all know I read...
Q&A with author Ernessa T. Carter
As a participant in the book tour for Ernessa T. Carter's 32 Candles (see my review here), I got an opportunity to ask her some questions about the role hair plays in her book...
Book Tour Review: 32 Candles
"[A Molly Ringwald Ending is] a perfect ending. It's when somehow, against all odds, people manage to surmount all issues of class, status, and personality to get together at...
Book Review: Spanking Shakespeare
Mr. Parke returns our writing. He writes on my paper that humor is wonderful, but I am using it as a defense mechanism to avoid confronting myself in a more substantive and...
Mini Book Reviews: June
June, as usual, was a super busy month for me. Not only did school wrap up, but I started a new job and did quite a bit of traveling to visit family and friends. As a result,...