Krysten Ritter’s debut novel Bonfire is really just okay. Don’t get me wrong, Ritter can write, but throughout my reading of Bonfire, I kept having the feeling that I’d read this story before. The main character, Abby, is an environmental activist slash lawyer who has returned to the small nothing of a town where she grew up. She is there to prove that the one corporation in town, Optimal Plastics, has been corrupting the opinions and perspectives of residents by providing them with jobs, donating to the […]
Finally, a Romance Author Who Understands the Importance of Quality Snacks
I accrued some library fines on this book and I’m sending my apology out to the universe for the person behind me in the holds list who is delayed in getting this copy in their hands. That’s what happens when you get six books on interlibrary loan over three days (after none arriving for three weeks), your social calendar gets very full, and you can’t renew this new book (published January 30, 2018 y’all). But I’m also quite glad that I embraced the fines and kept the […]
THUG gave me all the feels
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas deserves all the hype and awards. The story centers around teenager Starr Carter who lives in the African-American community of Garden Heights while attending an expensive private school on the posh side of town. She has two sides of her life, two faces she shows each environment. Her white boyfriend Chris has never met her Dad. Her friend Kenya, who she shares a half-brother with has never met any of her high school friends. The two worlds collide after […]
Merry October or I revisit a favorite
Merry October everyone. (Shhh… I know its November, but it’s still October in my heart.) I love Rainbow Rowell, and I love the characters she creates. I also love how much she loves my favorite month of the year. This is my second time through Attachments and while looking back I can see all the ways in which Rowell has grown as an author but my affection for this story has only grown. I rated this one 4 stars when I last read it for […]
One Sees Clearly Only with the Heart
Right after finishing and loving The Sun is Also a Star, I ran out to the library and got Nicola Yoon’s first novel, Everything, Everything. Though I didn’t love it quite as much as her second book, I thought it was engaging, moving, and well-constructed. I also can see Yoon starting to think through some minor themes that become major themes in The Sun is Also a Star. This novel is a love story, but it’s not your typical teen romance. Madeline Whittier, who is […]
“Sometimes that is what forgiveness is anyway, a deep sigh”
Shotgun Lovesongs caught my eye a few months ago while I was perusing my local bookstore. The book flap synopsis sold me: “It’s a place like hundreds of others, nothing special, really. But for four friends – all born and raised in this small Wisconsin town – it is home. And now they are men, coming into their own or struggling to do so. One of them never left, still working the family farm that has been tilled for generations. But others felt the need […]
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