Usually, I review my 52 books and then take a break for the rest of the year. And after this review, I plan to do so. But since this is a holiday-themed book, I figured I would write something up. My True Love Gave to Me is a book of short stories, all Christmas themed. The stories are written by an all-star team of YA champions: Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de la Pena, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Rainbow […]
(Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you’re still not better off without it.)
As we approach Thanksgiving here in the U.S. I’m reminded of the things I’m thankful for, and in the last several years Cannonball Read is one of the things I am extremely thankful for. It’s helped reignite my love of reading, its introduced me to a group of people who also love to be bookish readers and talk about what they’re reading and why it’s affecting them the way it is. And its helped pull me outside of myself in my real life as whole […]
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
Go into this with the understanding that there’s a magic phone, one that allows our main character (Georgie McCool) to communicate with her husband back before he was her husband, back during a terrible week in which she thought she would lose him forever. Understand that you will never get an explanation for the magic phone. Think of the magic phone like Clarence showing George what could have been, or the ghosts giving Scrooge a tour of things. Accept that, and it’s a wonderful little story. “Nobody’s […]
I’m not such a fan, girl
Last year, my Cannonball book was a crashing disappointment. A one star disaster that I HATED. I didn’t want to repeat the same problem this year. I wanted book 52 to be a treat, a rave review, a delight. A book I tore through in a day because I couldn’t put it down. After loving Eleanor & Park so hard, I bought Fangirl so this was the obvious logical choice to take centre stage as book 52 this year. An obvious shoo in for a gushing and effusive review. […]