Skip to content

Category: book reviews

My Favorite Books of 2014

Although I hope to finish a few more books in the next couple of weeks, I’m going ahead and calling my top books of 2014! FICTION Rainbow Rowell Fest: Rowell…

Book Review: All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

Finch and Violet have a meet-cute with an edge: at the top of their school’s bell tower, both thinking about jumping. Outcast and abused Finch, recently “Awake”, thinks he might…

November Book List

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown (5 stars) More solid advice from my life…

October 2014 Book List

Relativity by Cristin Bishara (3.5 stars) After moving cross-country with her dad and in with a stepfamily she barely knows, Ruby is burdened by all the losses she can’t change.…

Book Review: Rare Bird by Anna Whiston-Donaldson

On September 8, 2011, Anna Whiston-Donaldson’s two kids went out to play in the rain with friends. Her twelve-year-old son, Jack, fell into a flooded, fast-moving creek and did not…