Some of my favorite reading experiences involve reaching that tipping point in a book where you make a conscious decision…
Posts tagged YA
Kissing Cousins
When a friend of mine said How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff had a better, more believable love story…
This is a Light that Never Goes Out
Warning: Unmitigated, unapologetic gushing ahead. I loved every single sentence in every single paragraph on every single page of Rainbow…
Not Buying It
To enjoy Kat Rosenfield’s young-adult novel Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone, you have to buy into the conceit that…
I Stay Near You
I have a pack of friends who write books for young-adult and middle-grade readers (all of whom you should read)….
One of the sweetest love stories I’ve ever read
John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars the sweetest love story I’ve read since, well probably Steve Brezenoff’s Brooklyn, Burning….
Nobody sees the negative stereotypes
It’s ironic that a book about bullying can be so full of cruel, negative stereotypes that it verges on bullying…
Don’t let the cover scare you
Before I started reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, I took off the book jacket and…
A++ even without the automatic ‘Mats’ mention mark-up
I cried when I finished reading Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff. While I’m generally a crybaby, I wouldn’t need to…