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  • Book Highlight: Suite Scarlett

    This was the first book I read in the middle school library, and I have lked it ever since. It’s not too groundbreaking, it has the rather generic coming of age story of a teenage girl. Only hers is that she and the rest of their family are trying to save their dying hotel. It…

  • Book Highlight: Unbecoming

    This heartwarming YA novel explores three generations of women, and the secrets that burden them and twist their relationship with their daughters over the years.

  • #SoMaternal and Mothering Books

    People Like Her by Ellery Lord This book is a semi-mystery focusing on mommy blogger and icon, Emmy Jackson, her husband, Dan and the mysterious stalker that seeks revenge on for having an ideal life that feeds the insecurities of others. It’s a book about the darker undercurrent of internet fame and the obsessions behind…

  • Catching Air Review

    Two couples jump on the chance to take over a cozy BnB in Vermont. The husbands, Peter and Rand Danner are brothers and are gung-ho about making it work. Peter’s wife, Kira sees it as a wonderful change after working in corporate laeyer in Florida. Alyssa just hopes it will be a quiet place for…

  • Author Highlight: Courtney Sheinmel

    I have already talked about one of her books that I have reread several times, Sincerely, but last year I decided to go on a binge of several of her middle grade books. None of them are connected, but each deal with the complexities of families and the young protagonists dealing with big changes in…

  • On the Come Up Reread

    I read this about three years ago I think, but I didn’t remember much of it as compared to its predecessor The Hate U Give. But to be fair, On the Come Up is a solid book, it’s just I had to read THUG about five times for three different classes so it just stuck…

  • Book Highlight: My Most Excellent Year

    I put this book under book highlights because I am so biasedly incapable of doing an objective review of this. This book by Steve Kluger is just wholesomely wonderful. Not in the sacherrine way but in a this is how life and people should be. Characters are everything to me when I read, and I…

  • Top 5 S.A.S.S. books

    Oh this was really hard as it changes depends on. . . I don’t know what really. It just changes. So this is just my top 5 as of now, but all the books are good and I reread them a lot. In case you’re wondering, there is not a lot of sass in this…

  • Summer ReReads P1

    I don’t know about anyone else but I am the kind of person who likes to reread and rewatch my favorite things once a year. That being during the summer because I have a lot of time to relax and enjoy. Why I chose these specifically, I don’t know really. Nostalgia probably. Also that I…

  • Rachel’s Diverse Reads of 2021

    I decided last year to expand my reading from the deliciously fun backstabbing frenemy series like Gossip Girl and Beauty Queens to a group diverse YA standalone book so here are my reviews. They’re a bit short since I wrote it after I read all the books, which again was over the year, so it’s…