The kid is in high school now, and although her getting older must mean that I, too, must be getting older (yikes!), there are a few perks. One of them is getting to watch her discover things, like some great books that I read when I was around her age. First up is Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian masterpiece. The story of a society, perhaps our own, that has decided that the ideas included in books are dangerous, seems eerily prescient. The floor-to-ceiling view […]
Just say no to girl on girl crime
Natalie Stirling wants her senior year to be perfect. She wants to be elected student council president and feels the weight of responsibility on her shoulders to do the best job possible. She also believes herself to be feminist and supportive of her fellow female schoolmates, but when a group of freshman girls, led by Spencer Biddle, a girl Natalie once used to babysit, starts running around, encouraging senior guys to sleep with them, Natalie’s carefully laid plans for the school year start to unravel. […]
Like Breakfast Club, but with a murder
This was a book where the premise hooked me from the start. Five high-school seniors—a nerd, a jock, a rebel, a princess, and an outsider—are in detention together. One of them is murdered, but only someone in the room could have done it. I saw it on an amazon ad, and although it is not my usual genre, I flipped immediately to my kindle app and got the sample. By the time the sample was over, I was dying to know who did it. The […]
A dream wrapped in razor wire or razor wire wrapped in a dream
4.5 stars To everyone who knows her, Waverly Camdenmar appears to be pretty much perfect. She is intelligent, successful, one of the most popular girls in school (thanks to her Machiavellian scheming on behalf of her best friend, whom she’s pretty sure she doesn’t even like anymore). Said best friend keeps referring to her as a robot or android, but thanks to her, Waverly fits in. No one knows that nearly every night, Waverly battles insomnia and runs until her feet bleed. She also fears […]