Tomorrow I’ll Be Brave by Jessica Hische is an interesting take on being brave, adventures and trying new things. The narrator has done many things today and tomorrow they will try to do them all over again. They will keep trying if they did not make it today or even if they did not make it tomorrow. They know that is okay. Tomorrow I’ll be all the things I tried to be today: Adventurous, Strong, Smart, Curious, Creative, Confident, & Brave. And if I wasn’t […]
If I ever meet her, I will embarrass Ursula K. Le Guin with my fangirl weeping.
The Tombs of Atuan is the story of Tenar. According to the Priestesses of the Tombs, Tenar was the reborn spirit of the First Priestess. Tenar is taken from her family at five years old and sent to the Tombs, where no man, not even the Godking himself, can enter, to train to serve the Nameless Ones, to live the life she has lived hundreds of times previously. After a year her name is taken from her and she is only ever to be Ahra, […]
All the Yes: The Worst Years of Your Life.
The back of this book tells you this collection of short stories is “delightful and terrifying” which immediately drew me in, because I can’t think of two better words that together, conjure up adolescence. In his introduction, the editor Poirier states the stories stem “from nostalgia for the intense and sometimes confusing emotions that we all experienced at this time in our lives.” The cover of the book has a drawing of a frog, belly side up, ready for dissection. This gave me an overwhelming […]