My rating: 5/5 stars I was stifling giggles and kicking my feet while reading this one After a spicy one-night stand, college students Russ & Aurora go their separate ways. But they’re surprised to bump into each other on the first day of summer camp where they’ll be working as counselors for the whole summer.… Continue reading Review: Wildfire by Hannah Grace
My rating: 5/5 stars “We don’t just assume that friendship is a second-tier relationship; we act to make it so. Compared to our families and romantic partners, with friends, we invest less time, are less vulnerable, and share less adoration. We see romantic relationships as the appropriate relationship to hitch a flight to see each… Continue reading Review: Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make and Keep Friends by Marisa G. Franco
My rating: 4/5 stars “It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. Easy to wish we’d developed other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we’d worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or… Continue reading Review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
My rating: 4.5/5 stars “My life has started. I’m in it. It’s not something I’m waiting for anymore. I’m here. And whatever I wanted for my life, was it this?” Eight Perfect Hours A snowy evening in March leads to the roads being closed off which leaves Noelle suddenly stranded: she’s got no food, she’s… Continue reading Review: Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis
My rating: 3.75/5 stars “I remember, as a kid, when I first understood that only half of every tree is visible, that the roots in the soil are equal to the branches in the sky, that a whole other half is underground. It took me a lot longer, well into adulthood, to realize people are… Continue reading Review: All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
My rating: 4.75 stars Angie Thomas has got that midas touch when it comes to writing because this was gold. I absolutely loved The Hate U Give when I first read it and I ended up loving On The Come Up (OTCU) even more. OTCU is about 16 year old Bri whose dream is to… Continue reading Review: On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
My rating: 3/5 stars “We help people when big things happen to them, when you see them getting hit by a car, when a brother or a sister or a father or a mother dies, we’re there for them because we can see that death kills more than the person it takes. And yet, the… Continue reading Review: I Wrote This for You: Just the Words by Iain S. Thomas
My rating: 3.5/5 stars “For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.” Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl… Continue reading Review: Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl
My rating: 5/5 stars “The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character… Continue reading Review: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
My rating: 5/5 stars “Many poets and sages throughout the ages have observed that true happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things. Most people in their restless search for something significant to happen to them, continuously miss the insignificant, which may not be insignificant at all.” A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose… Continue reading Review: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
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