I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. Most of you will have heard how this book has stirred up a lot of controversy since its publication in …
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Book Review | Such a Fun Age (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Kiley Reid’s debut Such a Fun Age, Emira is struggling with what she wants to do with …
Book Review | The Underground Railroad
I’ve read a novel by Colson Whitehead before, but that was several years ago in college. Now, with The Nickel Boys out, I decided to revisit him by reading his most famous work: The Underground Railroad, which tells the story of one woman’s journey from enslavement in the South to various places in America, learning …
Book Review | Sugar Land
Sugar Land by tammy lynne stoner is a novel that tells the story of Dara, from her youth in Midland, Texas in the 1920s through her adulthood. As a teen, she falls in love with a female friend but struggles with the implications. Afraid of what having a relationship with another girl could lead to, …
Book Review | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
I admit it. Even I was initially intimidated by the length of this book. And I'm that person who read Harry Potter at age eight, who's devoured books in a single day, who has a reading list that numbers in the triple-digits. But seeing Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell for the first time in a …
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Book Review | The Song of Achilles
Looking back, I should have known this book would be devastating. Especially considering how much I love mythology, I should have seen it coming, how emotionally invested I got. In fact, I spent most of the evening after I finished the book texting my friend in all caps about this novel. So yeah. You could …
Book Review | Bridge of Clay
So story. My first read of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak took me about four months to finish. I blame college. I Am the Messenger took probably two. The only one I've read in a reasonable amount of time is the Underdogs trilogy, but only because I read it in the summer. After that, …
