It’s time for a look at an excellent new, perfect-for-fall graphic novel as well as a giveaway! Read on for my thoughts on Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks’ Pumpkinheads as well as information on how to enter to win a copy of it! Thank you to my friends at Raincoast Books for generously providing a copy for giveaway! Pumpkinheads […]
Review: The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Gallery Books, imprint of Simon & Schuster. Thank you! Publication: August 6, 2019 by Gallery/Scout Press. Book Description: When Rowan stumbles across an ad for a live-in nanny, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—with a staggeringly generous […]
Review: For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: July 30, 2019 by Farrar Straus & Giroux Book Description: I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark. Makeda June Kirkland is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and […]
Review: I’m Fine and Neither Are You by Camille Pagán Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Thomas Allen & Son. Thank you! Publication: April 1, 2019 by Lake Union Publishing (Amazon/Brilliance Publishing) Book Description: Honesty is the best policy…except maybe when it comes to marriage in this brilliant novel about the high price of perfection from bestselling author Camille Pagán. Wife. Mother. […]
I am delighted to be hosting a fun and generous giveaway courtesy of partner Simon & Schuster! Read on for my thoughts about book three in Rachel Renée Russell‘s New York Times bestselling The Misadventures of Max Crumbly series, Masters of Mischief, as well as information on how to enter to win an awesome prize pack (open to US addresses)! […]
Children’s fiction review time! I want to draw attention to two wonderful children’s middle grade titles I’ve had the pleasure of recently reading: first up, courtesy of my friends at Raincoast Books is Remy Lai’s debut, Pie in the Sky; next, courtesy of the lovely folks at Penguin Random House Canada, is To Night Owl From Dogfish by Holly Goldberg […]
Review: Camp by Kayla Miller Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: April 23, 2019 by HMH Books for Young Readers Book Description: Author-illustrator Kayla Miller is back with Olive in this emotional and honest story about navigating new experiences, learning to step outside one’s comfort zone, and the satisfaction of blazing your own trails. Olive is sure […]
Review: Click by Kayla Miller (additional color by Katherine Efird, design by Andrea Miller) Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: January 8, 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Book Description: For fans of Smile and Real Friends comes a debut graphic novel about friendship and finding where you click” in middle school. Olive wants to get in on […]
Review: Past Due for Murder (A Blue Ridge Library Mystery #3) by Victoria Gilbert Source: ARC courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Publication: February 12, 2019 by Crooked Lane Books Book Description: Spring has sprung in quaint Taylorsford, Virginia, and the mayor has revived the town’s long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As part of the festivities, library […]
Let’s take a look at two children’s fiction titles I’ve had the pleasure of reading: The Ghost Road by Charis Cotter and Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo- a pretty incredible duo of acclaimed authors! Thank you to the lovely folks at Tundra Books, Candlewick Press, and Penguin Random House Canada! “Don’t you see? It means you can see […]
