Attachments by Rainbow Rowell Review by Lauren Source: copy from library; all opinions are my own Official Summary: Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It’s company policy.) But they can’t quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other […]
Nobody’s Hero by J. Leigh Bailey Review by Lauren Source: copy from netgalley; all opinions are my own Official Summary: Bradley Greene’s family all but discarded him when his brother caught him fooling around with another boy. Now Bradley has seventeen dollars and a gas card, and he’s sleeping in his car. He’s an emotional […]
A Look Back at Blog World (9) It’s been awhile since I posted one of these, so I figured it was about time! Hope everyone is enjoying their April. It’s been a mix of sunny and rainy days, but today isn’t too bad. I’m just happy I only have a couple weeks or so until […]
The Sculptor by Scott McCloud Review by Lauren Source: copy for review; all opinions are my own Official Summary: David Smith is giving his life for his art–literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he […]
Waiting on Wednesday was created by Breaking the Spine Cut Both Ways by Carrie Mesrobian Out: September 1, 2015 Official Summary: Will Caynes never has been good with girls. At seventeen, he’s still waiting for his first kiss. He’s certainly not expecting it to happen in a drunken make-out session with his best friend, Angus. […]
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson Review by Lauren Source: copy from library; all opinions are my own Official Summary: Jude and her brother, Noah, are incredibly close twins. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude surfs and cliff-dives and […]
I’m here today to share with you three different picture books that are all sorts of adorable and focus on being yourself. Definitely a message you want to share with the little ones in your life. I want to thank Sourcebooks for allowing me to review these items and share a copy of each book […]
Waiting on Wednesday comes from Breaking the Spine Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa Out: September 8th, 2015 Summary: This is the story of a girl, her gay best friend, and the boy in love with both of them. Ten months after her recurring depression landed her in the hospital, Mira is starting […]
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Review by Lauren Source: copy from library; all opinions are my own Official Summary: American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he’s the only Chinese-American student at his new […]
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Review by Lauren Source: personal copy; all opinions are my own Official Summary: It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager […]