“Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.” –Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, “Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.” Antigone by Sophocles I first read Antigone while in High School. While it felt… Continue reading Modern Antigone: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
“Dedication: For everyone who knows there was enough room for Leonardo DiCaprio on that door. And for England. We’re really sorry for what we’re about to do to your history.” Hello everyone, I am back as promised with the light-hearted My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows. This book was such a pleasure to read. It’s one of those… Continue reading Review: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person’s character aren’t the mistakes we make. It’s how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.” Hello everyone, first off I would like to apologize for my extremely long silence. Life has been pretty crazy lately and for that reason and many others… Continue reading Review: It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
Hello Everyone! As one of my reading goals for 2017, I am rereading Harry Potter. As I am going through this, I am paying particular attention to how reading this series is different for me as an adult compared to now. At different points in our lives, the stories we read take on different meanings.… Continue reading Rereading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
“So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.” Wooooh I have been dying to read this one. The first book was so well written, I couldn’t wait for the second. This is a Sequel in a series of four books (I think?), so this review may spoil things that happened in… Continue reading Review: A Torch Against the Night by Sabba Tahir
“But some things are stronger than years of freedom. The draw of fire. A longing for freedom. Or a girl on a red horse.” Here’s another one from my stash. This is a new one for YA, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I believe that this is the direction that we should be going… Continue reading Review: Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
“I’m afraid if I listen to my heart once, I’ll never figure out how to ignore it again.” I hope everyone is having a good holidays. In my desperate efforts to read 100 books by the end of the year (I am at 96, I am not sure if I will make it), I am… Continue reading Review: Confess by Colleen Hoover
“She was the roar and the whisper and the stillness. She was nothing. She was everything.” This is another pull from my large TBR pile from the library. It is based on Arabian Nights, including jinnis, magic wish granting, and decorative bottles. I thought I was getting myself into another retelling, but this one is… Continue reading Review: Exquisite Captive by Heather Demertrios
“First, though, she had to go back out there and smile at everyone. Fake her way through the rest of the night and another three days. Pretend to still be normal. When she was pretty sure she never had been.” You guys know how much I enjoy a good retelling. This is a Macbeth… Continue reading Review: As I Descended by Robin Talley
“Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.” I picked this one up from my online library. It was on my to-read list, so I figured why not tackle it before Thanksgiving. I was very interested in the concept of… Continue reading Review: The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson
“That was part of being a girl–you were resigned to whatever feedback you’d get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn’t react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they’d backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke… Continue reading Review: The Girls by Emma Cline
“We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy. The reason the Uncanny Valley exists is because humans created it to put other people into. It’s how we justify killing each other.” I picked this one up from my library at school. Normally, they aren’t too good at having… Continue reading Review: All The Birds In The Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
“It’s our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.” I also picked this one up from my library via the online site. So for those of you that don’t know, I am in the Coast Guard. I see anything about ships and I am instantly intrigued. This story begins with… Continue reading Review: Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
“Sometimes love and chaos are the same thing.” I picked this one up from my library via the online site. I finished it in one day because it is that addicting. Once you are roped in, there is no getting out. This young adult novel is a twist on the lives of the young, beautiful… Continue reading Review: The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
“She shouldn’t love me Asia that is I know I don’t.” I got this as an advanced reading copy via NetGalley. I was originally intrigued because of the horses, which is probably a strange reason to pick up a book about eating disorders. But as a child I absolutely loved horses, even tried to convince… Continue reading eArc Review: The Sky Between You and Me by Catherine Alene
“You never know all of a person; you only know them in a specific moment of time.” My time is slightly less occupied by ridiculous obligations, so here I am reading once again (20 more books to make it 100 for the year). I picked up this one via the internet version of my library… Continue reading Review: A World Without You by Beth Revis
“I could do this. If whole galaxies could change, so could I.” I got this one online from my library, thank goodness for the online library system or I would be completely stranded at college. Honestly, I was expecting it to be a light YA romance, but it had some pretty complex issues. This is… Continue reading Review: The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
First of all, I would like to apologize for not posting in almost a week. This was Midterms week for me and it was absolute hell. I had little to no free time to even read, much less write. Hopefully, things get better after this. I go to military school for those of you that… Continue reading Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Another ARC that I got this week off of NetGalley. The cover of this one really caught my eye. It’s the story of an aspiring artist and all the challenges she faces. It’s a twist on a coming of age story. Everyone is a little dramatic and juvenille, but just trying to find themselves. Teenage… Continue reading ARC Review: Piper Perish By Kayla Cagan
Books I Read: Reviews: ARC Review: All Her Secrets by Kate Avery Ellison Review: Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas Review: The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by John Tiffany and Jack Thorne Top Ten Tuesdays: Ten Books on my Fall TBR Ten Books I Wish… Continue reading Summary of September 2016
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