I'm ready for cooler weather, as evidenced by my current reading choices. Bring me autumn, please! In Starling House by Alix E. Harrow, we meet Opal, a young woman who’s stuck in the tiny town of Eden, scraping a living so she can get her bright younger brother into a better school. Eden is nowhere, …
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Book Review | Stars in Your Eyes
In Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender, Logan Gray is known as the bad boy of Hollywood, a great actor but not a great person. And then there’s Matthew “Mattie” Cole, the up-and-comer who everyone loves. So they’re an unlikely pairing when they’re cast as the two main characters in a queer romcom movie, …
Book Review | What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama (translated from the Japanese by Alison Watts) relates five loosely connected stories of five different people who visit a community library in Tokyo, only to find themselves changing for the better, all because of an unexpected book recommendation by the enigmatic librarian. There’s …
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Book Review | Fly With Me
In Fly With Me by Andie Burke, Olive is a nurse who is terrified of flying. Her first time on an airplane is awful, but when a fellow passenger has a medical emergency, she jumps into action and saves his life. However, people are filming her, and the video of what she did gets put …
Book Review | Family Lore
Well, this was a surprising read. In Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo, the Marte family has known that many of them have special abilities. One can tell when people are lying, one is great at herbalism — and Flor has dreams that tell her when someone is going to die. So when she decides to …
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