Recently I was feeling really bummed out. I was talking to my best friend on the phone and explaining that usually I start to tune a novel or premise out when it’s
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In the last week I got a few new books or holds in from the library, all of them YA, most of them new takes on classic tales like Cinderella, Beauty and the
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Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas My rating: 1 of 5 stars Oh my god… Do you ever have one of those experiences with a book where you binge-read it, put it
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Book Review of Laura Lee Anderson’s “Song of Summer” Ever since I adopted a deaf cat last fall, I have been trying to learn more about deaf culture. When I saw Song of
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Yesterday was the official half-way point of the year—hard to believe it, I know. Two weeks ago I had the semi-unhealthy idea to up my Goodreads reading challenge from 100 to 150 books for
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This week it was my brother’s birthday! I shall not reveal his age, but I will say he is older than me, and as such I am his kid sister. We are
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Recently it occurred to me that I own a lot of books. I’m not sure how this escaped my notice for so long. But I had absolutely been telling people, “I don’t
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A Little Personal History The first time I officially recognized my illness as a disability was in 2006 when I registered with Student Disability Services at Barnard College, which I attended at
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I resent the fact that almost any young adult novel with stylized, first-person teen male POV is automatically judged against John Green. It’s a shallow way of looking at what we should
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Many fiction fans get to the final page of a brilliantly immersive novel and immediately experience the crushing, numbing paralysis known as a “Book Hangover.” Dazed and disoriented, convinced that “nothing else
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