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by Amanda MacGregor
December 14, 2014 by Karyn Silverman
Love Is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic, September 2014 Reviewed from ARC So, I think I made it pretty clear last year that I really like Alaya Dawn Johnson’s style. She’s smart and she writes books that appeal to me as a reader. But if you dismiss this as just another fangirl […]
December 9, 2014 by Joy Piedmont
I’ll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson Dial Books for Young Readers, September 2014 Reviewed from digital galley and final copy A lot of things make me cry. A great book, a sad movie, and occasionally, a really moving commercial*. I have a long list and I’m really honest about being particularly susceptible. But I’m […]
November 30, 2014 by Karyn Silverman
For years in my teens and early twenties, I read chick-lit like it was going out of style. I didn’t mind the label or the candy colored covers or the many many headless women — I was young, and not in love, and these books filled a hunger. I now scorn the love triangle in […]
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October 31, 2014 by Sarah Couri
Three stars! Two plots for the price of one! Paranormal romance WITH commentary on the paranormal romance genre! A book for book lovers! Publishing trivia sprinkled throughout! Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld is a door stopper of a book with a lot to say — about the intricacies of publishing, the craft of writing, the art […]
October 20, 2014 by Karyn Silverman
Belzhar, Meg Wolitzer Dutton, September 2014 Reviewed from ARC There’s always some weird dance of anticipation and dread when an author you respect as an author for adult readers dips into the YA world. Happily, Meg Wolitzer is very clear eyed about YA and about why she writes YA — it’s not to jump on […]
September 22, 2014 by Karyn Silverman
Zac & Mia, A.J. Betts Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2014 Reviewed from final copy Remember when teens with terminal illnesses were the stuff of Lurlene McDaniels and also the Wakefield twins’ brother’s girlfriend? And not literary fodder. Oh for the days of yore. But the cancer book seems here to stay, and this one puts […]
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