“Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right,” Angie Thomas
Review: The Hate U Give
Our Best and Worst of 2018
2018 was filled with ups and downs—as life usually is, but we had an incredible year of reading here at Lit Lens. Here are our top ten favorites from this year and our least favorites.
January TBR
Despite all the hectic holiday season, December was actually a great month of reading for the both of us.
A Very Large Expanse of Sea
“If the decision you’ve made has brought you closer to humanity, then you’ve done the right thing.”
Book + Movie Review: Mortal Engines
“It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.” ~ Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines
Top Ten Tuesday: Winter TBR
This week’s TTT is… Winter TBRs! This was a fun one—though it may change a bit after Christmas!
Review: Darius the Great is Not Okay
“Everyone wants you here. We have a saying in Farsi. It translates ‘your place was empty.’ We say it when we miss somebody. I sniffed "Your place was empty before. But this is your family. You belong here.”
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Classics
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is a freebie—and we’ll be talking about our favorite classic works of fiction. We’re both avid readers of classics, so this was a fun list to come up with.
Review: Paradise
“The visionary language of the doomed reaches heights of linguistic ardor with which language of the blessed and saved cannot compete.” ~ Toni Morrison, Paradise
