I put a post up a couple months ago about my favorite authors as a kid, and I thought I'd add a continuation of that. So here are ten authors I loved in middle and high school (so around ages 11–17-ish). 10. Stephanie Meyer, author of Twilight Go ahead, judge. I was an impressionable twelve-year-old …
Tag: YA literature
Book Review | I Am the Messenger
I Am the Messenger is Markus Zusak’s fourth book (though his first three are hard to find in America). It chronicles the story of Ed Kennedy, a taxi driver in a small town in Australia. He is pretty much a nobody, and has virtually no goals for his life. But when an incompetent criminal robs …
Book Review | An Ember in the Ashes
An Ember in the Ashes is Sabaa Tahir’s debut, the first in the Ember Quartet. It tells the story of a girl, Laia, a Scholar living under the violent, oppressive rule of the Martial Empire. After her brother is arrested for treason and her grandparents are killed, she finds the shadowy Scholar Resistance, a group …
Top 10 Books I Read in 2018
It's the end of the year, which always seems to be a time for looking back and looking forward. So I thought I'd reflect on what I read this year. I've been trying to read more nonfiction lately, as well as delve into books I might not usually pick up. I did manage both those …
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, …
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