Book Review: Beauty Queens
“That explains the budget weave,” Miss Ohio said. I could have posted the more thoughtful and poetic quote from Libba Bray's Beauty Queens, but I decided to go with the one...
Nov 1, 2012 0 2 min read
Young Adult Lit
Book Review: Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
Let me tell you—if you think your best friend dying is a bitch, try your best friend dying after he screws you over. It’s a bitch like no other. As the quote above indicates,...
Mini Book Reviews: Summer Fiction
Parents are too easily frightened by the world their children live in. We have to protect them from harm, keep them safe as long as we can, no matter how we feel about...
Mini Reviews: Summer Audiobooks
So, yes, my life has been chaotic and busy, mostly due to all of the teaching and grading I've done this summer. Oh, and the moving. So add it all together, and that left me...
Book Review: The List
The list is refreshing in that sense. It can reduce an entire female population down to three clear-cut groups. Prettiest. Ugliest. And everyone else. As the quote above says,...
Book Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth is the story of a girl who lives in a small town in Montana during the 1990s. She’s being raised by her aunt and grandmother...
April Mini-Reviews
Since I am so behind on book reviews, it's time for mini-reviews! Here are some books I've read but have yet to review: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie: Along...
Book Review: Jane
To expend some of my energy, I wandered the grounds and saw, for the first time, the wreck of the chestnut tree. It was black and split down the center. The two halves clung...
Book Review: No Crystal Stair
No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson is a fictional account of the life of Lewis Michaux,...