There’s a lot to admire in Drew Magary’s debut novel, The Postmortal. The plot is fascinating: what if, this year, scientists could discover the cure for aging? What if you could get a series of shots that would guarantee that you would never age a day — and would live for as long as you wanted, unless you died from a disease or an accident or an act of violence? Would you do it? If you did, what would it change about the way you […]
“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s part of the risk.”
My daughter is 14, and all of sudden this year I couldn’t go 6 seconds without hearing the words “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.” I think she watched it on Netflix 50 times with her friends. I watched it, too. It was adorable. And I wanted to know more about Lara Jean and Peter, so off to the library I went, picking up all three volumes of their saga. At this point, pretty much everyone knows the story: Lara Jean is half-Korean, and […]
Thanks, Loubear!
Thank you, Loubear! (And mom scootsa1000!) These two have been on my TBR list for a while now, so I’m excited for the chance to read them! I do have a pile of Pride and Prejudice spinoff books, so maybe I’ll try to read and review them all…
One part Scream + one part Anna and the French Kiss = There’s Someone Inside Your House.
Remember a few years ago when everyone was reading Anna and the French Kiss and thought Stephanie Perkins was an adorable, fresh voice in YA? Well, she’s back. And this time, she combines a cute teen romance with a Scream-esque horror novel, and the results are mostly great. From Amazon: It’s been almost a year since Makani Young came to live with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska, and she’s still adjusting to her new life. And still haunted by her past in Hawaii. Then, one […]
I didn’t love most of this. But I did love one part a whole lot.
Last year, I was surprised and delighted by When Dimple Met Rishi. It was such a refreshing and adorable YA romance. I was excited about Sandhya Menon and the way she represented strong, independent, intelligent women growing up in households of Indian immigrants. I loved the way she described the balance between old cultures and new, and the way both Dimple and Rishi respected the old ways while trying to invent their own. I was thrilled when I got this book in a package from […]
“One never knows when one is behaving like a creep; probably even that astronaut lady who drove for two days to beat up her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend didn’t think twice when she bought those adult diapers. It just felt right.”
Here are all of the things Dave Holmes and I have in common: We went to college together and have a few of the same friends. We both worked as DJs at WCHC. We both remember what it was like to anxiously await the arrival of a new J Crew catalog. We can both easily drop SNL’s Gary Kroeger into a conversation. We both love music. Here are some ways that Dave Holmes and I are different: I have never been on MTV. I’m not […]
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