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  • We Need Diverse Books

    I know I missed We Need Diverse Books week or Banned Books week, but it took a while to compile this list of all the contemporary YA I’ve read over the years. Some overla since no one can be fit into one label, but I labeled some of them as many are #OwnVoices. Since it’s…

  • Reading Log 2023

    Last year, I read an amazing 500 books so this year it was only reasonable that I reach a little more and try to get to 600. I didn’t. I got to 700 books!! And yes, maybe it’s considered “cheating” if you count those graphic novels and lower grade books that are easy to read…

  • May Books

    Take the Lead by Alexis Daria If you enjoy Dancing with the Stars, readers will love Daria’s Dance Off series where long time instructor, Gina has been dying to get a trophy after ten seasons of losing. Unfortunately, she gets paired with reality wildnerness star, Stone whose claim to fame is that he’s tall and…

  • Author Highligt: Maurene Goo

    Desi Lee is a straight A, type A, school president, Standford dreaming nerd. Basically she’s winning at everything in life with waaay too many extracurriculars and an almost encyclopedic/photographic knowledge of obscue things from Middle English to trees to cars, the latter thanks to her mechanic father. When she was little, she convinced herself that…