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 Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan’s Save Me a Seat Ash (my sister) and I had originally chosen The Queen of Blood for this month’s Family Reads. She tried reading […]
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 select a book for us to read and discuss. Sister: I previously read Patrick Ness’ the Chaos Walking trilogy and More Than This. I kept walking past A Monster Calls at work and thought it looked really […]
When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she’s not a boy. She knows she’s a girl. George thinks she’ll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be performing Charlotte’s Web George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can’t even try out for the part . . […]
Blogger’s autosave ate my full review (which I was quite pleased with) of this book 🙁 I am reminded of why I draft locally in Word… There’s nothing I hate more than rewriting, but I’m going to try to recall as many of my thoughts as possible and share them here. At least I made a few notes while reading… Quite by accident, September has been crowned as Queen of […]
Author: Ronald Kidd Title: Dreambender Format/Source: eBook/NetGalleyPublished: 1 March 2016Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co.Length: 256 pagesGenre: Middle-grade dystopiaWhy I Read: Liked cover + descriptionRead If You’re: N/ARating: ★Links: GoodReads | IndieBound | Chapters | Amazon I received a complimentary copy from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. Everyone in the City is assigned a job by the choosers–keeper, catcher, computer. Callie Crawford is a computer. She works […]