“The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.” ~ Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Team Review: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Review: The Dispossessed
"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities." ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Review: Every Day
“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough,” David Levithan
Review: Beloved
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
~ Toni Morrison, Beloved
Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Items I’d Like to Own
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday makes us feel like we’re going on a virtual shopping spree. The topic from That Arts Reader Girl is “Bookish Items/Merchandise I’d Like to Own.” Here’s our list: Indiana’s Five Lumio Wood Book Lamp I first saw these on a trip to Alaska and I’ve been obsessed ever since. When... Continue Reading →
Review: Dumpin’
“I don’t know. I think you gotta be who you want to be until you feel like you are whoever it is you’re trying to become. Sometimes half of doing something is pretending that you can,” Julie Murphy
Review: All the Bright Places
“The thing I realize is, that it’s not what you take, it’s what you leave,” Jennifer Niven
Top Ten Tuesday: Backlist Books I Want to Read
No matter how much we read, it seems like we always have a list of books we can never get to. Thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl for another great Top Ten Tuesday idea.
November TBR
Despite October being a busy month for us, it wasn’t too bad as far as reading goes. With November being NaNoWriMo we might struggle to finish everything on our lists, but here’s to hoping we can get it all read!
Review: Louisiana’s Way Home
“In some ways, this is a story of woe and confusion, but it is also a story of joy and kindness and free peanuts,” Kate DiCamillo
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