The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

The Details Publisher: Bloomsbury YAPublished: February 4th, 2020Genres: YA, LGBTQIA+ romance, contemporary My Rating: 4 Stars Goodreads Blurb As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and …

Sharing a little bit of my WIP

Oh man, So looking at my twitter feed, I noticed my pinned tweet is the last time I shared any of my current WIP with y'all. In that year I've finished writing the thing and started making it better as I work on the second draft so hopefully I'll feel good enough about it to …

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 …