Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur ★★★★★ | Goodreads | Amazon What a beautiful and important book! I read this a few months ago and never gave it the full review that it deserves. This collection of poetry opened my eyes to a few things I have never experienced: rape, …
Happy holidays, everyone! The time has come. Seasonal music blasts everywhere you go, everyone is making lists of goals for the new year, and you’ve been gifted (or used all your holiday money on) way too many books. But hey, that’s just how it is as the book lover of …
As some of you may have noticed, I haven’t posted here in almost a month and my posts on Twitter and Instagram have slowed down too. I ignorantly decided to take 18 credits this semester in an attempt to catch up in my overall credit count. Between classes and work, this …
Rating: ★★★★☆ Synopsis: What if the world holds more dangers—and more wonders—than we have ever known? And what if there is more than one world? From Heather Dixon, author of the acclaimed Entwined, comes a brilliantly conceived adventure that sweeps us from the inner workings of our souls to the far …
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Synopsis: From Jesse Andrews, author of the New York Times bestselling Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and screenwriter of the Sundance award–winning motion picture of the same name, comes a groundbreaking young adult novel about music, love, friendship, and freedom as three young musicians follow a quest …
Rating: ★★★★★ Synopsis: Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece’s class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will …
Rating: ★★★★★ Synopsis: one day i met a guy who stole my heart, we created a world for ourselves. and another day he broke my heart and shattered my soul. i took the tattered pieces of this broken soul and became anew. – here lies the hurting, the healing, and the learning …
Rating: ★★★★★ Synopsis: In the early 1990s, no one talked about transgender people, and no one knew one. We were not on TV or in movies. What formed the visible part of the transcommunity – overwhelmingly white, urban, and middle class – was also overwhelmingly focused on conferences, surgery or hormones, and …
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ Synopsis: Overweight and unhappy at home, Emmy gets sexually involved with a popular classmate so that people will think that she is worth liking. When she realizes that he is just using her, she decides to leave her home in Winnipeg to stay with her uncle’s family in Vancouver. …
Rating: ★★★★★ Synopsis: When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt’s fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone… Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them marks the screenwriting debut …
