CBR10Bingo – So Popular! Here’s my confession: I don’t think I liked this novel very much. For starters, I am not a huge fan of YA books in general. I appreciate them in a lot of ways, and I own plenty and supply them to my teenagers readily. So mostly it’s a matter of me not choosing to read them much. And this book is perfectly good. It’s readable, it’s charming, it’s smart; but I also think it’s ham-fisted at times and manipulative throughout. Given […]
“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt”
This is my second time reviewing The Fault in Our Stars and it’s been reviewed countless times on Cannonball so I’m not going to do a whole plot summary. What I need is for more of you to read Turtles All The Way Down so I can argue the following (potentially controversial) point: Turtles All The Way Down is better than The Fault in Our Stars. This isn’t to say TFIOS is a bad book or even undeserving of the 5 Star rating I gave it 4 years ago and again today. It is simply […]
The Fault in our YA Lit?
I don’t read a lot of YA but The Fault in Our Stars took the world (both young, and older than young) by storm, so my curiosity was piqued. Then, my favorite podcast Literary Disco (CHECK IT OUT) did an episode about it so I had to read it before listening to the episode so that was just the nudge I needed. I did the first half of this as an audiobook, and the second half as an ebook (just because I wanted to speed things along) […]
Young adult fiction that’s not about vampires or fanatasy or death…wait, just no vampires or fantasy
I reluctantly put this book on hold at the library more out of a sense of duty as a book blogger, rather than a real desire to read it. Much like my 9 year old niece’s attitude to the Harry Potter series, I was reluctant to grab my board and join the wave of popularity that surrounded this book (my niece is totally wrong, by the way, but that doesn’t mean I am). I was something like 116th in line at the library. So I […]