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Favorite Reviews:
I have reviewed many books over the years, and some reviews have been more interesting or fun to write than others. The below list were my favorites to write.
• Ada, or Ardor
• Choose Your Own Autobiography
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• The Dream Thieves
• Firstborn
• If Not, Winter
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• The Kid Table
• Landline
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Lolita
• Mockingjay
• The Monk
• The Night Circus
• Return of the Native
• S
• Things Fall Apart
• The Unit
• WinterCategories:
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Tag Archives: audio
Protected: The Savage Dawn, by Melissa Grey (audio)
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Posted in 2017, Prose, Young Adult
Tagged audio, dream-invader, LGBTQIA, speculative
The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman (audio)
Irene is a junior librarian in a library that exists outside all worlds. Her job is to retrieve manuscripts from various alternate worlds so that the library may preserve them. She’s just come back from a tedious mission and is … Continue reading
Plus One, by Elizabeth Fama (audio)
In the world post-Spanish flu, the population has been split into halves: those that live and work in the day (Rays) and those who occupy the night (Smudges). The choice of which half you’re in has more to do with … Continue reading
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (audio)
There is very little I can say about this book. It’s a letter from father to son, an unfolding of personal experience regarding discrimination and the arbitrary line of racial division. This personal narrative grows into something more, an enclosed … Continue reading
Callback: the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series
Back in 2012, I first read Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. I fell in love with the book and gobbled both it and the sequel up over the next couple months. I didn’t get to read the … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Prose, Young Adult
Tagged audio, callback, favorite, memorable, reread, speculative
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Gilded Cage, by Vic James (audio)
The world is divided into two: those with Skill – the Equals – and those without – the commoners. In England, the Equal aristocrats rule, and the commoners by law must give up a decade of their life to what’s … Continue reading
Real Food, Fake Food, by Larry Olmsted (audio)
Subtitled: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do About It Let me start by saying what this book isn’t. This is not about so-called Frankenfoods. It’s not about Lucky Charms or Velveeta or Pepsi. When … Continue reading
