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The Girl of Fire and Thorns

Posted on: February 15, 2016 at 12:30 am, in

Rae CarsonLucero-Elisa de Riqueza, the younger princess of the kingdom of Orovalle, is wed in an arranged marriage to King Alejandro de Vega, of the neighbouring country of Joya d’Arena.  Joya d’Arena is embroiled in a war with another country, Invierene, and their situation is precarious.  Elisa has been marked by God with a blue […]

City On Fire

Posted on: February 12, 2016 at 10:03 am, in

City On Fire By Garth Risk Hallberg Let me start by saying that City on Fire requires a bit of a commitment.  At over 900 pages, some have argued that it’s far too long.  But if you’re up to the task, this novel is worth it. Set in the crime-ridden, dirty and corrupt New York […]

Book of the Month – February – Untwine

Posted on: February 1, 2016 at 12:00 am, in

By Edwidge Danticat This novel grabs you right from the beginning. The story of twins who were connected right from birth, emerging into the world holding hands. They have not been separated since…until a tragedy rips them apart. As the red van comes hurtling towards the family car, identical twin Giselle slows the action in her mind, trying […]

We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a true story

Posted on: January 22, 2016 at 10:04 am, in

We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist“When I was twenty-five years old, it came to my attention that I had never had a girlfriend”–the first line of this compelling and occasionally ridiculous true story.Josh Sundquist has written a funny, awkward memoir about his dating (or not-dating) foibles, and has done so with a good […]

Funny Girl

Posted on: January 21, 2016 at 5:21 pm, in

By Nick Hornby This story is set in the 1960’s about a girl from Blackpool England who dreams about becoming a comedic actor.  While I don’t think that this is one of Hornby’s best work – I felt disconnected from the protagonist, especially since the book jumps back and forth to different characters. I did […]

A Thousand Pieces of You

Posted on: January 8, 2016 at 5:53 pm, in

by Claudia Gray  Marguerite Caine is an artist in a family of scientists. Her parents are physicists that invented a device to travel to parallel-universes that they call the Firebird. When Marguerite’s father is murdered, all fingers point to one of his assistants: the quiet and awkward Paul, who immediately jumps into another universe to […]

Book of the Month: January – Dorothy Must Die

Posted on: January 1, 2016 at 12:30 am, in

By Danielle PaigeWe’ve all heard the tales. Dorothy, a simple farm girl from Kansas and her peppy little dog Toto, are whisked away by a tornado to a magical land called Oz. There she meets a strange assortment of friends, and in a deal with the Wizard of Oz she battles the Wicked Witch of the East […]

Book of the Month: December – Seconds

Posted on: December 1, 2015 at 9:00 am, in

by Bryan Lee O’Malley Have you ever wondered what would happen if you could change the past? Katie is about to find out in this new stand-alone graphic novel from best-selling cartoonist Bryan Lee O’Malley. Katie is a young restaurant owner who lives in an apartment above her restaurant. One night she discovers that there […]

Every Day

Posted on: November 23, 2015 at 10:00 am, in

by David Levithan’A’ is a soul who wakes up in a different body every single day. This has been happening since the day he/she was born. Every day ‘A’, who is of indeterminate gender, race and physical appearance, gets to be the person whose body he/she is inhibiting, and has access to their memories and […]

Stone in the Sky

Posted on: November 3, 2015 at 1:21 pm, in

Stone in the SkyBy Cecil CastellucciHave you ever gone to the library to pick up the newest book series only to find that the first book in the series is out. Well that is what happened here but I decided to try reading the second book first and see how it went. I was not disappointed […]