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Different tune, same story

Battle of the Bands by Eric Smith and Lauren Gibaldi

September 5, 2023 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

There’s a thing that happens when you totally crush out on someone. It’s like you can feel your heartbeat in every part of your body. There’s a euphoric kind of excitement mixed with sadness and terror. It’s hard to explain, but it happens in an instant and then just explodes and grows from there, consuming your every waking thought and sometimes your dreams. You can’t escape from it. It takes over and runs the controls that make you . . . you. Suddenly, you aren’t […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Ashley Poston, Ashley Woodfolk, brittany cavallaro, cbr15bingo, coming out, Eric Smith and Lauren Gibaldi, high school, high school band, high school shenanigans, Jasmine Warga, jay coles, Jeff Zentner, Jennifer Marie Thorne, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Justin Courtney Pierre, Katie Cotugno, musicians, pining, Preeti Chhibber, rock music, Sarah Nicole Smetana, Sarvenaz Taghavian, Shaun David Hutchinson, teenage angst, teenage years

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Ashley Poston, Ashley Woodfolk, brittany cavallaro, cbr15bingo, coming out, Eric Smith and Lauren Gibaldi, high school, high school band, high school shenanigans, Jasmine Warga, jay coles, Jeff Zentner, Jennifer Marie Thorne, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Justin Courtney Pierre, Katie Cotugno, musicians, pining, Preeti Chhibber, rock music, Sarah Nicole Smetana, Sarvenaz Taghavian, Shaun David Hutchinson, teenage angst, teenage years ·
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Thank you, Julie Murphy, for continuously not sucking.

June 15, 2018 by scootsa1000 2 Comments

I’m sorry to say that Meet Cute was my biggest reading disappointment of 2018 so far. It had everything I thought I wanted: how-we-met short stories from some of the best YA authors out there — including Julie freaking Murphy — and a recommendation from Rainbow Rowell. I assumed it would be a delight. And some of it was. I had never heard of Ibi Zoboi, but her story “Hourglass” was my favorite of the bunch. She told a story about Cherish, a tall African-American […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories, Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, Dhonielle Clayton, Emery Lord, Huntley Fitzpatrick, Ibi Zoboi, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Jocelyn Davies, julie murphy, kass morgan, Katharine McGee, Katie Cotugno, meet cute, Meredith Russo, nicola yoon, nina lacour, Sara Shepard, Scootsa1000

scootsa1000's CBR10 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Young Adult · Tags: #CBR10, Dhonielle Clayton, Emery Lord, Huntley Fitzpatrick, Ibi Zoboi, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Jocelyn Davies, julie murphy, kass morgan, Katharine McGee, Katie Cotugno, meet cute, Meredith Russo, nicola yoon, nina lacour, Sara Shepard, Scootsa1000 ·
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