Diversity Spotlight Thursday #3

27 July 2017 / meme / 6 Comments
Diversity Spotlight Thursday #3

Read and Enjoyed: Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson As she races along Canada’s Douglas Channel in her speedboat—heading toward the place where her younger brother Jimmy, presumed drowned, was last seen—twenty-year-old Lisamarie Hill recalls her younger days. A volatile and precocious […]

Review: Bannerless Doesn’t Live Up to its Premise

9 July 2017 / review / 13 Comments
Review: Bannerless Doesn’t Live Up to its Premise

Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn Format/Source: eBook/Netgalley Published: 11 July 2017 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Length: 352 pages Genre: Post-apocalypse/Mystery Rating: ★ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound | Wordery I received a copy from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. Decades […]

2017 Mid-Year Check In

6 July 2017 / thoughts / 8 Comments
2017 Mid-Year Check In

Time for my 2017 mid-year check in. The year’s been clipping along nicely, hasn’t it? Somehow I’ve managed to keep a good handle on my reading and blogging for this first half of the year! I suspect my habits will […]

June 2017 Month in Review

4 July 2017 / month in review / 8 Comments
June 2017 Month in Review

This post is linked up at the Monthly Round-Up Wrap-Up @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction. Is summer here yet? The season has been slow to arrive where I live. But if the weather forecast can be relied on, then I […]

Exploring Biracial Identity in The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

3 July 2017 / review / 0 Comments
Exploring Biracial Identity in The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond by Brenda Woods Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: January 2014 Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books Length: 240 pages Genre: Contemporary middle grade Rating: ★★★★ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound | Wordery Violet is a smart, funny, brown-eyed, brown-haired girl in a […]