Does anyone else feel like spring was a blur? How is it June already? How is it summer? So, for the past few months, I've been doing the whole grad school thing while also living the librarian life, which means I didn't get the chance to read as much as I would've liked. Hence the … Continue reading Spring Wrap Up (March-May)
"I am always surprised to discover that when the world seems darkest, there exists the greatest opportunity for light" (246). Brigid Kemmerer's A Curse So Dark and Lonely is a YA fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast that takes elements from the classic fairy tale we know and love and puts a modern spin on it. In … Continue reading A Curse So Dark and Lonely
"Save the one, save the world" (72). Heather Morris' The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a historical fiction novel based on the true story of Lale Sokolov—a Slovakian Jew and survivor of the Holocaust—who did everything and anything he could to keep himself and the love of his life, Gita, from death. Becoming the concentration camps' … Continue reading The Tattooist of Auschwitz
"The truth often lies, unclaimed, in the middle" (3). Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo) is an adult historical fictional novel that pieces together the story of how a fictional 1970s rock band, Daisy Jones & The Six, rose to become one of the greatest rock … Continue reading Daisy Jones and the Six
My blood is my crime. If you look at it, it's still red. If you touch it, it's still wet. But if you listen to it, it speaks a single name in a pulsing chant. Romanov. Romanov. Romanov. I received a complimentary eARC of this book from Thomas Nelson through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this … Continue reading Romanov
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi is a YA Romance inspired by the author's own experiences with breakdancing, love, and the prejudices she faced as a Muslim woman after 9/11. "It didn't matter that I was just as shaken and horrified as everyone else; no one believed my grief. People I'd never … Continue reading A Very Large Expanse Of Sea
Give the Dark My Love by Beth Revis is a YA "dark" fantasy that tells the story of Nedra Byrsstain: a seventeen-year-old who wants nothing more than to study medicinal alchemy in order to stop the spread of a deadly plague that has been sweeping the northern territories of Lunar Island where her family lives. Luck … Continue reading Give the Dark My Love
Another year gone. It's 2019, and I'm ready for it! This new year brings with it the return to grad school (AND THERE WAS MUCH REJOICING....yay). And, of course, living the librarian life and doing librarian things like reading and such. I don't normally set reading goals for myself—I like to go with the flow—but I … Continue reading Reading Goals for 2019
Kiersten White's The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frakenstein is a YA Horror retelling of the classic horror story, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. I'll admit, I've never read Frankenstein in its entirety due to my distaste for the epistolary style novel when I was younger, but since I've read Dracula, I'd like to give Frankenstein another go now that I have a new appreciation for journal … Continue reading The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of those stories that has been taken and made-over by Hollywood so many times, it's hard to decipher what came from the original, and what came from a studio. In the movies, Dracula has luscious black locks, nice cheek bones—in the older films he wore a cape—and in the 21st century, … Continue reading Dracula
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