Mom’s Upcoming Wedding to her Girlfriend Stirs Up a Small Community in This Chapter Book [Review]

17 July 2019 / review / 4 Comments
Mom’s Upcoming Wedding to her Girlfriend Stirs Up a Small Community in This Chapter Book [Review]

My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer by Jennifer Gennari Format/source: Hardcover/LibraryPublished: May 2012Publisher:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Length: 119 pages Genre: Historical fiction Target Age: 8+ #OwnVoices: Unknown (lesbian rep) ★★★★  Twelve-year-old June Farrell is sure of one thing—she’s great at making pies—and she plans to prove it by winning a blue ribbon in the Champlain Valley Fair pie competition. But a backlash against Vermont’s civil union law threatens her family’s security and their business. Even when faced with bullying, […]

2019 Mid-Year Check-In

15 July 2019 / thoughts / 4 Comments
2019 Mid-Year Check-In

A couple weeks late but I didn’t want to miss this post! Stats are current to July 15. Reading Goals 45/90 books read – Fell a bit behind because of a reading slump in June but I expect to get back on track soon as I am in the mood to blaze through some middle grade fiction. 0/7 books about/by J.R.R. Tolkien (not including re-reads) – Hm, not even one? I better finish up […]

Favourite Books Released In the Last Ten Years [TTT]

28 May 2019 / top 10 tuesday / 3 Comments
Favourite Books Released In the Last Ten Years [TTT]

The prompt for this week is choosing the best book from each year of the previous decade. This was a fun way to review what I’ve read in the past 10 years (!). Pulling together the list took a lot longer than I expected. I need to go to bed now because I am going to the dentist at 7:30AM…so I’m going to publish this post with no formatting apart […]

The Wise and the Wicked Wasn’t for Me [Review]

21 May 2019 / review / 4 Comments
The Wise and the Wicked Wasn’t for Me [Review]

The Wise and the Wicked by Rebecca Podos Format/source: ARC/ALA MidwinterPublished: 28 May 2019 Publisher: Balzer + BrayLength: 357 pages Genre: Contemporary fabulismTarget Age: Young adult#OwnVoices: Unknown (Russian, Jewish, lesbian, bi, and trans rep)★★½ Ruby Chernyavsky has been told the stories since she was a child: The women in her family, once possessed of great magical abilities to remake lives and stave off death itself, were forced to flee their Russian home for America in order to escape the […]

“I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” #7 (Help Me Choose!)

“I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” #7 (Help Me Choose!)

January’s Result – Truthwitch by Susan Dennard Erm, so, does anyone remember this feature I do on occasion? 😂 Turns out I didn’t have the capacity to keep it going during my final semester. Now that that’s over, though, I intend to bring it back on a monthly basis. I did tackle Truthwitch in February, shortly before I went to New York. The premise of Truthwitch appealed to me, as […]