Continuing my exploration of intermediate reader books this year is leading to a lot of, judging books by their cover. And this time I hit the jackpot. Verity Gallant is miserable. Her family doesn’t understand her, and she has no friends (she’s around 12-ish, I guess). She visits the library one day and sees a mysterious stranger. He steals a book so she chases after him. At the beach, before he sets sail, he hands her back the book and a round wooden ball with […]
Who’d a thunk a book with a train on the cover and set in the 30’s could actually be fun?
Hi everyone! I’m back. Or attempting to be this year. And setting my standards way lower. Hello, quarter Cannonball, how you doin’? Anywho, I decided this year is going to be the year of seeing what’s up in kid’s books. Not BlackRaven’s level from last year (I read way too many kids books on repeat to actually analyze them), but intermediate readers. I go to the library every week, and spend my time wandering the children’s section, which at our library is ringed by the […]
A *shrug* and a *yawn*
So I first read A Wrinkle in Time around 20 years ago. That’s my best guess. I remembered nothing about it, except that I did not like it at all, on a fairly strong level. So when I heard they were making a new movie I shrugged, but then it was directed by Ava DuVernay (yes), staring a diverse cast (YES), and then the trailer dropped. All in. Alllllll in. And it’s our bookclub book today! Reread commencing. I’m going to skip the plot synopsis […]
Figure Skaters Finding Love (literally all I needed to know to sell me on it, how about the rest of you?)
Oh Mariana Zapata, I have such a love/please for the love of god find an editor relationship with you. She wrote my favorite slow burn romance ever, Kulti, and is back this time with a different set of athletes. Jasmine Santos is a world class figure skater trying to decide if it’s time to end her career after her pairs partner bailed a year before. Ivan Lukov is the current reigning pairs figure skating champion and all around taunting pain in Jasmine’s backside at their […]