An online journal of my reading life
A friend of mine recommend this book to me months ago. She read it for work and told me that it was definitely going to be something I would really enjoy. So, when I got the opportunity to pick up an ARC of the book, I grabbed it. After working with the publisher to give [...]
I was really hoping to enjoy this one, but it hit a few of my personal pet peeves and didn't work completely for me. However, that isn't to say this book isn't good. It's still a great novel, but definitely relatable more to younger folks who are active in their school community or looking for [...]
I went into reading Girls of Paper and Fire with little knowledge of the book. You have to admit, marketing teams don't do the greatest job explaining books in their blurbs and that completely makes sense. However, this book gave me some serious Raise the Red Lanterns meets The Hunger Games vibes. The stories aren't [...]
When the world seems like it's falling apart everywhere we turn, it's always good to know that younger generations of people are gaining the same knowledge and understanding of the world. We may not be able to protect our young people from the prejudice and stereotypes and hate that surrounds them, but if we open [...]
This is a little bit different from what I normally do, but I was perusing Twitter when I saw this: In my head, I was hyperventilating. I had heard Tahereh Mafi was going to move away from her high fantasy books to write something that felt much more autobiographical. I knew that it would be [...]
I really wanted to like this book, but for some reason I couldn't even finish it. I'll try to be honest in my review below, but I do encourage you to try and read it if it's been of interest to you. Here's more about the book The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is [...]
My review of this book honestly doesn't do it justice. I had a ton of thoughts here and I tried to boil it down to its essentials without spoiling too much. Here goes nothing. Here's some more about the book A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their [...]
