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  • Summer YA

    Debating Darcy by Sayantani DasGupta While I’m usually iffy with Pride and Prejudice adaptations since they’re everywhere, there’s always one that manages a new spin to it that makes me enjoy the story all over again. It helps that the protagonist, Elizabeth is a musical nerd so I immediately connect with her as she sings…

  • Summer Comics/Manga

    Princess Jellyfish by Akiko Higashimura This fun manga follows a group of amars/okuta (women who don’t need men/adult fangirls) as they try to save their building from being sold to greedy developers by creating their own fashion line. Tsukimi is the star of it, and as you can guess from the title, her specific obssession…

  • Sleepaway Girls Review

    Ah summer camp, the pine trees, the color wars, the bug spray. I never got the appeal but Calonita makes a good case for it with Samantha Montgomery who heads to Whispering Pines for a change of scenery and to get away from being the third wheel to her BFF and boyfriend love bubble. Right…

  • The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages Review

    I was a fan of the series way back in middle school so when I heard they were coming out with a whole new book all these years later. I ignored it. But now I figured why not, let’s see if it holds up. So I reread the other four books and dove into The…

  • Book Highlight: I Will Always Write Back

    This heartwarming memoir shows the bonds that come from pen pals no matter the distance or difference in their places in life. Caitlin Alifirenka chose the country of Zimbabwe on a whim when it came time for the class pen pal assignment, wanting something different from the usual European countries everyone else knew about. Martin…

  • Book Tie Ins

    Now I’m not talking about the junior novelizations of movies and tv show episodes. I’m talking about books that seek to expand the universe and give side characters their time in the limelight like the dozens of Star Wars books. However, I never read or seen the full Star Wars trilogy so I don’t have…

  • Book Highlight: Dangerous Creatures

    This spin off duology from Kim Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s Beautiful Creatures quartet follows fan favorites, Wesley “Link” Lincoln and Ridley Duchaness. The adorkable wannabe rocker and the emotionally-stunted bad girl of the Duchaness clan. This is mainly Ridley’s story as you can tell from the beginning that she is fully aware of her Dark…

  • Top 5 Ann M. Martin Books

    Main Street I literally read this series 10 years in a row, every summer. It’s just so comforting and wholesome. It starts with the orphaned Northrop sisters, Flora and Ruby who are taken to live with their grandmother, Min (short for in a minute) in Camden Falls, MA. It’s not so tragic as they’ve been…

  • If you like this, try. . .

    I decided to take a little break from my “Favorite book (insert genre) suggestions” and try this. These are books I couldn’t fit under one particular category nor do I love them them enough to write a paragraph of why one should give it try. Besides I a lot of them have overlapping themes/genres/ideas with…

  • Animal Books

    Nonfiction Marley and Me by John Grogan This is a classic dog story so I won’t go too into it. Just yes, read the book. It is relatable, funny and tearjerking all at once. You will fall in love with the “worst dog in the world” okay. Oogy: A dog only a family could love…