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It’s Monday & Tropical Storm Colin is ruining my plans
I should be at the gym is what I'm saying. But no. Bands of rain with squall lines are coming through. RUDE. This past week, I read: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets...
Book Review: Necessary Roughness
Necessary Roughness by Marie G. Lee is another Friends of the Library book sale find. I probably picked it up because the main character is Korean--and completely ignored the...
Diversity on the Shelf Link Up: June 2016
Link up your reviews below. If you don’t have a book blog, but have Goodreads or Library Thing, etc., you may use that to participate and post your links to your reviews. Get...
May 2016: Month in Review
I read 11 books this month! Alex + Ada, Vol. 2 by Jonathan Luna Raven the Pirate Princess Book 1: Captain Raven and the All-Girl Pirate Crew by Jeremy Whitley Scrum by Jeff...
It’s Monday & I read a bunch of YA from the last century
This past week, I read: A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich by Alice Childress My rating: 2 of 5 stars This was a little hard to get into because the first chapter is told in...
Book Review: A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich
I picked up A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich by Alice Childress at the Friends of the Library book sale one day, probably because I recognized the title and figured it's a...
It’s Monday & I’m smashing my stack while listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda
This past week, I read: Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card My rating: 2 of 5 stars This was fine, but a little dry mostly because it's very interior and about a kid who thinks...
default whiteness
So I read this tweet the other day and it kind of shook me to my core. Mainly because I realized that I still default to white. STILL. And I have been reading a lot of books...
#SmashYourStack: Reading My Own Books for the rest of May
I know I'm past the halfway point of the month, but I have decided to participate in the Smash Your Stack challenge, which encourages readers to read their own books in May....