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Charis Cotter’s The Painting Explores Mother-Daughter Relationships via Time Slip

17 September 2017 / review / 0 Comments
Charis Cotter’s The Painting Explores Mother-Daughter Relationships via Time Slip

The Painting by Charis Cotter Format/Source: eBook/Netgalley Published: 19 September 2017 Publisher: Tundra Books Length: 288 pages Genre: Middle grade time slip Rating: ★★★½ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound I received a copy from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. Annie and her mother don’t see eye to eye. When Annie finds a painting of a lonely lighthouse in their home, she is immediately drawn to it–and her mother […]

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Review of Patina by Jason Reynolds

29 August 2017 / review / 0 Comments
Review of Patina by Jason Reynolds

Patina by Jason Reynolds Series: Track #2 Format/Source: ARC/Publisher Published: 29 August 2017 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Canada Length: 240 pages Genre: Middle grade contemporary Rating: ★★★★ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound | Wordery I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for my honest review. Patina, or Patty, runs like a flash. She runs for many reasons—to escape the taunts from the kids at the fancy-schmancy new school she’s been sent to […]

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Understanding The American Right in Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land

10 August 2017 / review / 2 Comments
Understanding The American Right in Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: August 2016 Publisher: New Press Length: 351 pages Genre: Non-fiction Rating: ★★★★½ Goodreads | Indigo | IndieBound | Wordery I read Strangers in Their Own Land in June. I haven’t been able to stop talking about it. When I first heard of this book, I immediately put it on hold at the library. I once thought […]

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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 after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn’t just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the […]

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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 family of blonds. Her mom is white, and her dad, who died before she was born, was black. She attends a mostly white school where she sometimes feels like a […]

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