living a thousand lives through pages !
Author: Ann Braden
Genre: Middle Grade; Realistic Fiction
Pagecount: 256
My Rating: 2.5/5 ☆
I’d want my 12 year old self to read this. My 12 year old self would appreciate this book a lot more.
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Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Genre: Historical Fiction
Pagecount: 368
My Rating: 4/5 ☆
❝Passion is…it’s fire. And fire is great, man. But we’re made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive.❞
Author: Cath Crowley
Genre: Young Adult. Contemporary.
Pagecount: 273
My Rating: 4.5/5 ☆
“The past is with me; the present is here. The future is unmapped and changeable. Ours for the imagining: spreading out before us. Sunlight filled, deep blue, and the darkness.”
Author: Adam Silvera
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, LGBT
Pagecount: 320
My Rating: 1.5/5 ☆
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June is my birthday month and that does make it a little special even though I’m very much like birthdays-aren’t-exciting-anymore.
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Authors: Lyn Ashwood & Rachel Rose
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Pagecount: 262
My Rating: 3.5/5 ☆
A book about a K-pop idol and a fan? Sounds pretty cool!
Author: Ruta Sepetys
Genre: Historical Fiction
Pagecount: 393 pages
My Rating: 5/5 ☆
Salt to the Sea reminded me once again why I love Historical Fiction.
Author: Kerri Maniscalco
Genre: Historical Fiction/Mystery
Pagecount: 434
My Rating: 3/5 ☆
Had I not buddy-read this with a friend of mine, I certainly would have DNF-ed this second book in the Stalking Jack the Ripper series.
Monsters were in the eye of the beholder.
Author: Fayeza Hasanat
Pagecount: 125
Rating: 4/5
Set in Bangladesh and the United States, the eight stories in The Bird Catcher address gender expectations, familial love, and questions of identity and belonging.
Taken from the book.
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Rating: 4/5
Pagecount: 144
Rainbow Rowell did her magic once again!
