Calendar Girls July 2020

Welcome back, I hope everyone enjoyed Hamilton weekend. We have reached the halfway point of 2020 (finally but also already). And with a new month comes a new Calendar Girls post! The theme for July is Embrace Your Geekness Day: Favorite Book with Geeky Characters. I think we are currently living an age of geeky …

How have I been doing?

Well, honestly, not bad. This evening at 8 eastern on the Harry Potter Alliance twitter page (@thehpalliance) I will be live tweeting the Hamilton Movie. So if you happen to be watching the Hamilton Movie on Disney+ and want along, please do! I would love it! As for writing, I'm doing pretty go. I've gotten …

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

The Details Publisher: Balzer + BrayPublished: September 18th 2018Genres: YA, retelling, romance, contemporary My Rating: 5 Stars Goodreads Blurb Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across …

My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, & Brodi Ashton

The Details Publisher: HaperTeenPublished: June 26th 2018Genres: YA, historical fiction, retelling, romance, paranormalMy Rating: 4.5 Stars Goodreads Blub You may think you know the story. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre embarks on a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester. Despite their significant …

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

The Details Publisher:  Crown Books for Young ReaderPublished: October 17th, 2017Genres: YA, contemporary, realistic fictionMy Rating: 5 Stars Goodreads Blurb Justyce McAllister is top of his class and set for the Ivy League—but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. And despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he …

A Statement

Hi, I wanted to talk a moment to talk about what's happening in the world on my little platform. I don't think the world really needs the voice of an unimportant cis white woman right now, which is why I haven't been active on social media over the last few weeks. I stand with the …

The Mall by Megan McCafferty

The Details Publisher: Wednesday Books Published: July 28th, 2020 (I think it's been pushed back again, but I'm not 100% sure) Genres: YA, slice of life fiction, historical fiction My Rating: 5 Stars Goodreads Blurb  New York Times bestselling author Megan McCafferty returns to her roots with this YA coming of age story set in …

Calendar Girls June 2020

Another new month has crept up on us and somehow it's June. 2020 has been the weirdest year I've ever lived though. Time is both too fast and incredibly slow, but either way 2020 is almost halfway over and I guess we can be thankful for that. And, or course for the Calendar Girls! This …

WWW Wednesday May 27th 2020

WWW Wednesday is a meme currently hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. It’s very simple – answer the three questions and leave a link in Sam’s post. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next What am I currently Reading? …

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

The Details Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Published: September 3rd, 2013 Genres: YA, Paranormal, fantasy My Rating: 4.5 Stars   Goodreads Blurb Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, …