Category: Young Adult
I speak from personal experience when I say this: a book can be a person with social anxiety’s best friend. Nothing eases the tension of being in a public …
Sara Deeter
June 24, 2017
Book Lists, Fantasy, Health, Human Interest, John Green, New Adult, News, Nicholas Sparks, Politics, Young Adult
America: Land of the free, home of the brave, and (under the new GOP healthcare bill) country of the massively uninsured. The Republican Party has recently released their *secret* …
Since sailing to Themyscira and sneaking into their libraries isn’t an option… …we’ll just have to make do with the books we have here. Fortunately, there are quite a …
Cierra Loften
May 29, 2017
Adult, African American, Book Lists, Book Lovers, Classics, Drama, Dystopian, Human Interest, Mystery, Reading, Suspense/Thriller, TBR, Young Adult
There are book lists like this all over the net and for good reason. Everyone’s list of “must-read” books differs and through reading through others’ lists, we can maybe …
Who would win a battle: Harry Potter or Darth Vader? What were Emma’s favorite books when she was a kid? What’s the best thing about playing Hermione Granger? These are …
A Western Slope school district official in Mesa County, CO has ordered librarians to stop circulating the popular Young Adult book Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, which recently inspired a Netflix …
Sara Deeter
May 25, 2017
Cassandra Clare, Fantasy, LGBT, New Adult, New Releases, Reviews, Romance, Sexuality, Women, Young Adult
Philia, but never eros. That’s how Julian and Emma, the star-crossed lovers of Cassandra Clare’s Dark Artifices trilogy, are meant to feel. Philia, the love of friendship, companionship, and affection, but …
This time of year, everyone’s talking about summer reading. I’m sure most of you already have a full TBR list that’s only getting fuller, but if you’re looking for …
Sara Deeter
May 19, 2017
Adult, Autobiography, Book Lists, Classics, Fantasy, Feminism, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Music, Poetry, Romance, Women, Young Adult
GaGa, ooh la la!! If I were to enter an alternate universe and actually have the chance to MEET LADY GAGA (*screams internally*), the inner book nerd in me …
As the LGBTQ community grows and gathers steam, it’s only natural that the genre would start to split into sub-genres. Still, these books rarely get to the forefront — …
Kathy Gates
May 15, 2017
Book Clubs, Book Lists, Contemporary, Crime Fiction, Dystopian, Family, Feminism, Humor, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mental Health, Muslim/Arabic Culture, New Adult, Politics, Suspense/Thriller, Women, Young Adult
I love to read and I love to discuss books. Should be a no-brainer that I would gather with ‘my people’ on a regular basis to talk books. Alas, …
Hermione would not be happy. Last month, during a burglary in Birmingham, England, a card with 800 words written on it disappeared. But those weren’t just any 800 words–they …
Books for Keeps (BFK) is a non-profit organization based in Athens, Georgia that works to improve children’s reading achievement by breaking the barriers related to the accessibility and appeal …
Jenny Han is known for her best selling trilogies: To All the Boys I Loved Before, Burn for Burn with Siobhan Vivian, and The Summer I Turned Pretty. The author has been busy …
Love letters are a timeless staple of some of the best love stories. You can find them all over literature, and these 10 are just a taste of what’s …
When asked about endearingly funny actors out there, Jason Segel definitely comes to mind. Known for the hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother and the movies Forgetting Sarah Marshall and …
There’s never enough Harry to go around. It’s hard these days to find a decently written, original fantasy story. Everything seems to be trashily written, a terrible sequel, or …
Cierra Loften
May 1, 2017
Book Lists, Book Lovers, Drama, Dystopian, Family, Human Interest, Indian Literature, Mystery, New Adult, New Releases, Relationships, Romance, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller, TBR, Young Adult
Woo! We’re already halfway through 2017 (crazy, right?) and man, oh, man has it been one heck of a year already. Though regardless of all that’s occurred this year, …
Famous for his mythological novels such as the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Rick Riordan has drawn a large fan base to his mythological retellings and stories. Publisher’s Weekly dubbed him …
Tahereh Mafi returns to the world of Shatter Me with a follow up trilogy that will focus on Juliette Farrars’ new journey as the new Supreme Commander, leading Sector 45 with …
