Review: The Beautiful by Renée Adieh
Let this be the horror novel to bring you into fall.
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“Molly who is good at everything” Kristin Sample
June 1992 Our mothers introduce us. Nothing can replace Nicole from the old neighborhood, but Molly is tan and thin and athletic. She plays…
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Summer Magic: Or What I’ve Read
Summer is sacred reading time. This was certainly true when I was a kid yearning for tall stacks of books and uninterrupted hours of…
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Beach Reads
Easy, breezy, beach reads are what summer is all about. This post is your perfect poolside, popsicle-adjacent booklist for the beach. The Girl from…
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“A Fistful of Pine”, Angela C. Kramer
“Want to climb a tree with me?” he asks, twisting his hand in his curls. He doesn’t ask my name. Or give his. He…
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“Boy’s Club” by Richard Gnann
It’s almost dark when I walk in the back door, and Dad’s waiting for me in the kitchen. “Come on.” He grabs his car keys…
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Issue Nine is Live
So much of The Passed Note blossomed out of my own high school experience—for a great slice of my teenagehood, books were my solace….
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Hello Readers, Welcome to my Looking Back on YA post! As I’ll be celebrating the new year in grandmother’s homeland (Budapest, Hungary), this post…
Read MoreFor Halloween: The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman is a hero among writers. He is known for writing benefit novels and comic books and television series and anything he can…
Read MoreReview: The Female of the Species
This book is already critically acclaimed, coming from an Edgar-award winning author and already lauded as a Globe and Mail Best Books of 2016…
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