Merry October everyone. (Shhh… I know its November, but it’s still October in my heart.) I love Rainbow Rowell, and I love the characters she creates. I also love how much she loves my favorite month of the year. This is my second time through Attachments and while looking back I can see all the ways in which Rowell has grown as an author but my affection for this story has only grown. I rated this one 4 stars when I last read it for […]
One Sees Clearly Only with the Heart
Right after finishing and loving The Sun is Also a Star, I ran out to the library and got Nicola Yoon’s first novel, Everything, Everything. Though I didn’t love it quite as much as her second book, I thought it was engaging, moving, and well-constructed. I also can see Yoon starting to think through some minor themes that become major themes in The Sun is Also a Star. This novel is a love story, but it’s not your typical teen romance. Madeline Whittier, who is […]
“Sometimes that is what forgiveness is anyway, a deep sigh”
Shotgun Lovesongs caught my eye a few months ago while I was perusing my local bookstore. The book flap synopsis sold me: “It’s a place like hundreds of others, nothing special, really. But for four friends – all born and raised in this small Wisconsin town – it is home. And now they are men, coming into their own or struggling to do so. One of them never left, still working the family farm that has been tilled for generations. But others felt the need […]
Nesting
Nest is the debut work by author Esther Ehrlich, and it is a touching, tender piece of children’s fiction. Sixth grader Naomi “Chirp” Orenstein lives on cozy Cape Cod with her family – Mom, Dad, older sister, Rachel – and always has. And she has no idea just how many things in her comfortable life are about to change, when her mom falls ill and things start unraveling. The book is split into two halves – The first half of the book is set in […]