I read and loved Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies trilogy well before I started this blog, so I haven’t reviewed it here. And anyway, you’ve probably already read it. Briefly: compelling, great world building, insightful cultural commentary, A+. But I only recently read Extras, the fourth book of the former-trilogy. I was a little nervous about it–I… Continue reading Review: Uglies and Extras
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Review: Leviathan
I know Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan trilogy is pretty popular, and I’d heard a lot of good things about it. But I simply didn’t think I was interested in it–a steampunk alt-history of WWI? Ugh, but I don’t really like steampunk or war stories. But I kept hearing such good things about it, and I remembered… Continue reading Review: Leviathan
Review: The Fault in Our Stars
Okay. There’s probably no point in me reviewing The Fault in Our Stars by John Green since by now it’s been a NYT bestseller for a couple weeks in a row (not to mention that it was also a bestseller in pre-sales) and you’ve probably already read it. But nevertheless, I read it and I… Continue reading Review: The Fault in Our Stars
Review: The Future of Us
All right! It’s been a minute since I actually reviewed a book around here! The reason why is: I BEEN BUSY. But whatever! This book has been sitting on my shelf since I got an ARC in July and I finally read it! The Future of Us takes place in 1996. Emma Nelson has just… Continue reading Review: The Future of Us
Rock Me, Bartimaeus (and other thoughts on fantasy)
This week was FANTASY WEEK in my children’s literature class! We read: The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt*, and Sector 7 by David Wiesner. But I just want to talk about The Ring of Solomon. Jonathan Stroud was not at all on my radar until I saw him at… Continue reading Rock Me, Bartimaeus (and other thoughts on fantasy)
Review: Modelland
You guys. You GUYS. Modelland is 563 pages long. And I read them all. (Or skimmed some of them. Maybe. A little.) As we all expected, it is awful. It’s more… creatively awful than I might have expected. Modelland takes place in some kind of bizarre fashion-themed dystopia. Girls growing up in this world can… Continue reading Review: Modelland
Review: Delirium by Lauren Oliver
I’m in my library school’s YA book club, where a bunch of overwhelmingly female library students (and a few actual librarians) get together and overanalyze YA books. YA book club is where I go to realize that all of my opinions about Katniss Everdeen are minority opinions. Anyway, this month we read Delirium by Lauren… Continue reading Review: Delirium by Lauren Oliver