Thank you to The Chancellor for these two books that I’ve been wanting to read! I want to try Brandon Sanderson and I hear Mistborn is a good place to start. I am also looking forward to The Bear and the Nightingale since it’s a retelling. Thank you again!! … [Read more]
Does any part of you still look at the sky and hurt?
Opal by Maggie Stiefvater
Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater
Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater
“She didn't want this, she thought. She wanted to stop being afraid.. and she wanted a future that didn't look exactly like her past. There had to be something they could do. This wasn't living, it was just giving up while still breathing.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk “Farooq-Lane's … [Read more]
's CBR14 Review No:47 ·
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult ·
Tags: angst, brothers, Fathers and sons, fish out of water, gay romance, identical twins, lesbian romance, LGBTQ, Maggie Stiefvater, magical realism, Mothers and daughters ·
A little love
Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall’
Around seventh grade I first heard about the Japanese American internment camp stories because my aunt is Japanese American. But it was not until I was much older that it clicked. My aunt, her siblings, her mother, and my cousins, not to mention her aunts, uncles and cousins would have been … [Read more]
's CBR14 Review No:612 ·
Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Romance ·
Tags: 1942-1945, internment, Japanese Americans, libraries, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Prejudice & Racism, Social Themes, United States - 20th Century, United States - Asian American & Pacific Islander ·
Bringing Her Back for a Speedy Read
Never Lie by Freida McFadden
Yes, my friends, I’m back with another Freida McFadden thriller. My strategy to get to a Cannonball is picking books I can get through at a brisk pace. McFadden has never let me down in this department. As I once wrote, her books are like potato chips: compulsively readable and bad for … [Read more]
What if the only survivors of the apocalypse were…boring?
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
Ish is the personification of that quote about “god grant me the confidence of a mediocre white guy,” except that he is even more assured of his specialness than usual, because he survived the plague that wiped out most of the rest of humanity. When he finally ventures out of his mountain cabin, … [Read more]
when you don’t know where to start…turf the request to the infallible Malin
I have been wanting to try Discworld for so long, but sort of like Doctor Who, it's just...a lot, for someone who didn't grow up with it/around it (ducks to avoid the shrieks). What is a Discworld? How does one start? Where does one go? The things I hear about it make me want to read it so VERY … [Read more]