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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Summer Reads
I always have a never ending list of books that I am anticipating, but these have been a few of my favorites this summer….
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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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Being Here: How Writers Create Place
This summer, I’m teaching Reading Literature during one of Virginia Commonwealth University’s summer sessions. My class is themed around Speculative Literature, my favorite genre….
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Review: The Young Elites
Young Elites has been out for a while, five years in fact, but with Marie Lu’s book 4 of the Legend series coming out…
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Review: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
I have never read a Rainbow Rowell novel before, and I decided to pick up a book of hers which I know is different…
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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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Review: Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Where is the heart of a small town? In Beartown, it is the junior ice hockey team. Preparing to compete in the quickly-approaching national…
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Review: Neverworld Wake
The past, present, and future coalesce for recent high school graduate Beatrice Hartley and her former group of friends in Marisha Pessl’s Neverworld Wake….
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Review: Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell
Fans of Les Miserables and sci-fi will love Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell. At just under six-hundred pages, it’s comparable…
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