It’s time to meet your new roomie. When East Coast native Elizabeth receives her freshman-year roommate assignment, she shoots off an e-mail to coordinate the basics: television, microwave, mini-fridge. That first note to San Franciscan Lauren sparks a series of e-mails that alters the landscape of each girl’s summer — and raises questions about READ MORE
Month: June 2014
STACKING THE SHELVES #27
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks where I don’t buy books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some books I READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY: COVER TRENDS/ELEMENTS I LIKE & DISLIKE
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Cover Trends I Like/Dislike. This is going to be a slightly more boring post for two reasons: 1 – I don’t have much time this week for blogging, and 2 – I don’t want to use cover images because I feel READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW: THE SILENCE OF BONAVENTURE ARROW – RITA LEGANSKI
Conceived in love and possibility, Bonaventure Arrow didn’t make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. No one knows Bonaventure’s silence is filled with resonance – a miraculous gift of rarified hearing that encompasses the Universe of Every Single Sound. Growing up in the big house on READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES #26
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks where I don’t buy books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some books I READ MORE
WWW WEDNESDAYS #23
It’s time for this week’s WWW Wednesdays, hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up asks three questions What did you recently finish reading? What are you currently reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? Here are my WWW answers! What did I recently finish reading? READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY: BOOKS ON MY SUMMER TBR LIST
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Books On My Summer TBR List. I feel like I did this one already. But I suppose this is slightly different – and more about my own plans for summer reading. So I’ll try not to be too repetitive! Beloved Strangers READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW: DRAWING AMANDA – STEPHANIE FEUER
Inky draws his crush for a game–and paints her into real danger.DRAWING AMANDA is set in the under-parented, high-expectation world of a Manhattan international prep school. Fourteen-year-old budding artist Inky Kahn is still smarting from the death of his father. He thinks he’s found his big break when he bonds with the developer of a READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES #25
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks where I don’t buy books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some books I READ MORE
LIEBSTER BLOG AWARDS – PART 2!
The lovely Karen over at One More Page kindly nominated me for a Liebster Award a little while ago. I decided to wait before doing the requisite post, since I had written one not so long ago and didn’t want to be too boring and repetitive! But I feel like enough time has now passed READ MORE
WHY I’M NOT IN THE LEAST EMBARRASSED TO BE AN ADULT YA READER
Earlier this week I went to see the movie adaptation of one of my favourite books. A book that had a deep emotional impact on me while also making me laugh harder than many more comedic novels I’ve picked up. This movie, as you all know, was The Fault In Our Stars. Which just READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY: BEST BOOKS I’VE READ SO FAR THIS YEAR
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Books I’ve Read So Far This Year. Oh, man. There have been some excellent books so far this year. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry – Gabrielle Zevin The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow – Rita Leganski Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW: THE LIBRARY OF UNREQUITED LOVE – SOPHIE DIVRY
One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight. She starts to talk to him, a one-way conversation that soon gathers pace as an outpouring of frustrations, observations and anguishes. Two things shine through: her shy, unrequited passion for a quiet researcher named Martin, and an ardent and absolute love of READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES #24
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks where I don’t buy books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some books I READ MORE
GUESS WHAT I DID TONIGHT? (PREPARE TO BE JEALOUS)
So a couple of weeks ago I was browsing Chapters, and I saw a contest to win passes to an advance screening of The Fault In Our Stars in my town. I entered, you know, just for the heck of it. And then promptly forgot all about it. Then on Monday an email lands in READ MORE
WWW Wednesdays #22
It’s time for this week’s WWW Wednesdays, hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up asks three questions What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? Here are my WWW answers!What did I recently finish reading? This READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY: TOP TEN BEACH READS FOR THE SUMMER
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is a seasonal: Top Ten Books That Will (or Should) Be In My Beach Bag This Summer. First of all, let me say that I’m not a seasonal reader, I’m more of an, “as the mood strikes me” reader. So I don’t really have READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | UP A TREE IN THE PARK AT NIGHT WITH A HEDGEHOG – P. ROBERT SMITH
Benton Kirby is in a spot of bother… His life hasn’t exactly gone to plan. This is hardly surprising, however, as he never really had one in the first place. Armed with a philosophy degree, a dead fiance, a brother who drives Death around London in his black cab, and a girlfriend with a READ MORE