“Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start out as lovers and end as strangers. Coming-of-age books become stories of losing your way. Your favorite characters come back to life.” Madeline Whittier has grown up in a bubble; she just turned eighteen and has spent the last seventeen […]
The Girl in the Plastic Bubble
Welcome to another edition of “Books I keep seeing and thinking I should read, and then finally do”! This one was a Christmas gift from my husband (who was originally going to get me Adele tickets, but lol yeah right, so instead got me books and Captain Marvel and Deadpool shirts. He’s a keeper.) and I pretty much devoured it. Everything, Everything is a fairly easy read and really does go quick. A lot of that is thanks to it’s format, which includes e-mails, IMs, and […]
Foist This Upon Your Teenagers
I think this book is on verge of getting over-hyped by the book community, so even though I really enjoyed it, I don’t want people to go into it thinking it’s going to be the best young adult novel they’re ever going to read. There’s a lot to recommend Everything, Everything though. Nicola Yoon’s first novel brims with easygoing, pleasant prose and well-written characters. For a short book, she really brought the characters to life. That’s probably partly because she has such a talent for […]