Hard to believe it’s been six years since the release of Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares! One of my all-time favorite YA holiday reads. Now Rachel Cohn & David Levithan are back with more holiday cheer in The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily. Even though it’s closer to Halloween than Christmas I couldn’t […]
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Gayle Forman is one of my favorite YA authors, and so I was thrilled to see her make her Adult debut with Leave Me. She brings “all the feels” we’ve come to expect from her work in this new venture. Leave Me centers around an overworked magazine editor/wife/mom who takes drastic measures to reclaim her […]
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Home Field is about a family in crisis. Dean is the football coach in a small town and is grieving his wife’s suicide. He has two young boys at home and a stepdaughter headed off to college, and everyone is acting out in their own way. The book marketing for Home Field got to me- […]
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Tumbling gives you an inside view into the world of competitive gymnastics, as twelve Olympic hopefuls compete for a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. The competition is cutthroat and nail biting as you follow the rankings after each event. If you’re a gymnastics fan, Tumbling will get you even more revved […]
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The musical Hamilton is a Broadway sensation and worldwide phenomenon about the life of American founding father Alexander Hamilton. Surprising no one, it’s expected to sweep at this year’s Tony Awards. I haven’t seen the show (and can’t even get tickets to the national tour in Los Angeles) but we are still caught up in […]
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In The Year We Turned Forty, three best friends are struggling with their life choices and get the chance to go back in time to try for a more favorable outcome. Will they decide to stay in the past or go back to the future? We’ve seen stories like this before in books and movies […]
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