Read and Enjoyed: The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutsie For Cassandra Leung, bossing around sea monsters is just the family business. She’s been a Reckoner trainer-in-training ever since she could walk, raising the genetically-engineered beasts to defend ships as they […]
Born out of a desire to get a family of book lovers to connect more over what they’re reading, Family Reads is an occasional feature where my mom, dad or sister and I read and discuss a book. Why we chose […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]