July TBR You guys! Doing this TBR post really helped me to stay on track reading and blogging in June. I’m hoping it’ll do the same in July. I’ll be headed to Geeky Con at the end of the month (!!!!) so that’ll cut into reading but summer school ends mid July so that should give me… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a feature run by the lovely crew at The Broke and The Bookish Top 10 Books I’ve Read So Far in 2015 Oh man. This is hard! I’ve read 101 YA books so far in 2015 and there have been so many excellent ones! I’m not limiting myself to ten. There are… Read more »
In honor of Huntley Fitzpatrick’s upcoming book The Boy Most Likely To Penguin Teen is running a fun campaign with bloggers called, “The Blog Most Likely to…” Participating blogs choose a superlative that fits their blog. What a fun idea, right?!? I adored My Life Next Door so of course I wanted to participate! I’ve been thinking… Read more »
My Thoughts: This book is a page turner from the get go. It starts with action and doesn’t let up. I was honestly surprised (in a positive way) by how much had happened before I had even read a quarter of the book! I was looking forward to this book for a few reasons. Most of them are… Read more »
My Thoughts: This was a really intense, really excellent read. My heart just went out to the main character, Sam. She has Purely-Obsessional OCD and seeing what she went through on a daily basis… wow. What a strong and incredible young woman! As a teacher I’ve worked with students dealing with obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. Reading Every Last… Read more »
This week’s featured book for the Summer of Sarah Dessen is Keeping the Moon. This is the perfect summer read! My Thoughts: There is so much I love about Keeping the Moon! I forgot how much I loved it until I re-read it earlier this year. I spent the whole re-read rediscovering all the things I… Read more »
My Thoughts: I don’t know what I expected from this book but it wasn’t me sitting on my couch sobbing over it. And I mean sobbing. Oh man. Just thinking about it makes me tear up! But, stars, did I love it! This was the second book by Sarah Ockler that I read and I know… Read more »
My Thoughts: This was my first Robin Benway book but it certainly won’t be my last! I loved it so, so much. I’m not even really sure where to start. I’ll divide this into three parts: why I picked it up, why I kept reading, and why I’ll read more. Why I picked it up: There… Read more »
My Thoughts: Oy. This book. This series! So. Much. Love. I don’t even know where to begin! It you haven’t read Scarlet or Lady Thief you are seriously missing out! So, Lady Thief ended and I was all aflutter. Between what we learn about Scar’s history and the events that occurred there is a lot going on. I needed to know what… Read more »
This week the Summer of Sarah Dessen focus is on Just Listen. How are we half way through already?!?! This is perhaps my favorite Sarah Dessen novel! It’s one of the very first I read and it just really stuck with me. I reviewed it back in 2011 so today I’m giving you my top 5 reasons you… Read more »
