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
Tag: young adult lit
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
Don’t Even Worry About It, I’m Reading Tyra Banks’s Modelland So You Don’t Have To
Yesterday was a great day! I got an email saying that the public library was holding a copy of Tyra Banks’s new YA novel Modelland for me! Today was an even better day! I got an ARC of Modelland from the Center for Children’s Books! (Never mind that it’s not really advance anymore since the… Continue reading Don’t Even Worry About It, I’m Reading Tyra Banks’s Modelland So You Don’t Have To
The Power of Maureen Johnson’s Twitter
As I may have mentioned before, I am a fan of Maureen Johnson. She’s smart, funny, and just plain weird. But I was not always a fan! The first time I heard of her was many years ago, on a musical theatre message board I frequent. If you did not know, Maureen Johnson is the… Continue reading The Power of Maureen Johnson’s Twitter
Review: Sweetly
I’ve been looking forward to this book for a long time! It’s billed as a “companion novel” to Sisters Red, which I thoroughly enjoyed. (See my “fairy tales with a twist” post.) Sisters Red had great, well-developed characters, exciting plot twists, and a very innovative, modern twist on a classic fairy tale. And Sweetly? Well…… Continue reading Review: Sweetly
Little Blog on the Prairie
Little House in the Big Woods was the first chapter book I ever read. I loved it, of course–who didn’t? I have a well-worn box set of the Little House books. I even read Farmer Boy, even though it was about Almanzo and not Laura. (Farmer Boy always made me really hungry–those kids were constantly… Continue reading Little Blog on the Prairie
Emerging from the Book Fort
Or something? Whew! I have fallen behind on blogging. My summer web design class just wrapped up and my final project for that took up a lot of time. Also, I’ve been preparing booklists for the public library TeenSpace as part of my library internship. That has been a really fun project, but also weird!… Continue reading Emerging from the Book Fort
Review: Fire
Fire by Kristin Cashore is a prequel (sort of) to her brilliant book Graceling. (I don’t think I fully reviewed that book here, so let me just say, it is wonderful and you should go read it ASAP. It’s probably my favorite book that I read this year, and I don’t even generally like non-contemporary… Continue reading Review: Fire
Review: The Name of the Star
Okay. Here’s a confession. I really like Maureen Johnson as a public figure. Her Twitter is hilariously weird, and she always stands up for YA lit when people like the Wall Street Journal say dumb stuff about it. (Which I guess is in her professional interest to do.) But I’ve been a little ambivalent about… Continue reading Review: The Name of the Star
Europe on $0 A Day
I just unintentionally read two books and watched a movie that took place in Europe (by which I mean, I didn’t sit down to have a Europe-themed reading/movie week. I read and watched them all on purpose. I wasn’t tricked or anything.) and now I’m wishing someone would send me to boarding school and/or on… Continue reading Europe on $0 A Day