Confession: I have this perverse fascination with popular girls. It’s a total love-hate thing. I grew up in a small town and graduated with the same fifty kids I started kindergarten with, give or take a few, so we didn’t have the same kind of cliquishness you see on Mean Girls, but it still existed.… Continue reading Girls, Girls, Girls: The List by Sibohan Vivian
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The Merry Sisters of Fate: A 3-in-1 YA Fantasy/Paranormal Romance Review
Our library is hosting the three authors of the forthcoming Curiosities: A Collection of Short Stories, which I reviewed here (and also shared a fun story about reading a couple of the stories to some juvenile delinquents here). But I hadn’t read any of the novels written by Tessa Gratton, Maggie Stiefvater, or Brenna Yovanoff and wanted to… Continue reading The Merry Sisters of Fate: A 3-in-1 YA Fantasy/Paranormal Romance Review
Curioser and Curioser: The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories
I’m not generally a fan of short stories. They tend to leave me unsatisfied. Fortunately, The Curiosities: A Collection is so much more than just a book of short stories. The tales grew out of Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff’s collaboration as The Merry Sisters of Fate, a blog where they write in… Continue reading Curioser and Curioser: The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories
A Classic, Updated: A Review of the Innocents by Frances Segal
I discovered Edith Wharton my sophomore year of college when I took an English course called Major Women Writers. We met once a week on Wednesday evenings to dissect Virginia Wolf and Willa Cather and Zora Neale Hurston. It was one of my favorite classes of my entire career—and I went to college for a long… Continue reading A Classic, Updated: A Review of the Innocents by Frances Segal
Don’t Be Fooled by the Cover: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
I put off reading this book because the cover underwhelmed me. The cool light painting wasn’t what turned me off—it was the girl in a white dress. Is she trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic dystopia or walking down the aisle on her wedding day? But several of my patrons who love paranormal romance and… Continue reading Don’t Be Fooled by the Cover: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
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