Nimona by Noelle Stevenson Rating: 4 stars I had been procrastinating on this book for way too long! I love that it’s told from the perspective of the villains, because I feel like we just don’t get enough of those kinds of stories. The art style is a bit sloppy …
Content Warning: This post talks about alcohol, marijuana, prescription medicine (for anxiety and ADHD), OTC medication, vomiting Welcome back! This is your friendly neighborhood sober friend coming at you with a post born out of a recent frustration. I hope this helps some people understand why alcohol (among other drugs) …
Synopsis Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but she’s, in fact, one of Quadara’s most skilled thieves and a liar. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of Quadara’s most enlightened region, Eonia. He runs afoul of Keralie when she steals a package from him, putting his …
Welcome back to Ace Of Bens! Today I’ve decided to do a feature where I spell out the name of the blog in book titles. All of the books shown below are ones I’ve read and rated highly, because I thought it’d be more fun to use titles I’ve actually …
This post has really been months in the making. Over the summer I was reading the synopsis for a book and was really interested until the second paragraph. It said that the (male) main character’s boyfriend died by suicide. I don’t know why this particular book—whose title nor author I …
Happy February! I read 6 books in January 2019 and started another. Unfortunately, I won’t have so much time to read now that my spring classes have started. But! I was able to get a pretty good start to the year at least. Plus, I’m taking a literature class and …
¡Hola a todes! Esto es mi primera intento de hacer un tag de blog en español, y espero que no sea el último. He querido hacer una entrada en español por casi un año pero no pudiera pensar en como hacerlo. Pues, un de mis propósitos de 2019 es escribir, …
Synopsis Everyone knows what happens in the end. A mermaid, a prince, a true love’s kiss. But before that young siren’s tale, there were three friends. One feared, one royal, and one already dead. Ever since her best friend, Anna, drowned, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing …
Synopsis Since the 1980s, poets in Canada and the U.S. have increasingly turned away from the use of English, bringing multiple languages into dialogue—and into conflict—in their work. This growing but under-studied body of writing differs from previous forms of multilingual poetry. While modernist poets offered multilingual displays of literary …
So I’ve decided to try my hand again at making playlists for books since I can’t seem to get this one out of my head. If you’ve read The Disasters, make sure you listen to the playlist and let me know what you think! If you haven’t read it but are …
