December’s Book Club: The Hate U Give
I have to be honest and say that it took me most of the book to realize that “the hate u give” on the cover of this book was written out in a way that spelt thug vertically. Admittedly, this is a little embarrassing because we learn with Starr early on what Thug Life stands…
November’s Book Club: The Last Witch
I’m not sure where to start with this one other than I was not mentally prepared to read a collection of short stories. A few of these were interesting, for example the retelling of Beauty and the Beast where the Beast has been cursed by a vampire like creature and pays to have girls stay…
October’s Book Club: House of Salt and Sorrows
Hello Twelve Dancing Princesses meets horror twist. I’ll admit, the book opening with a funeral and a discussion about how long the girls had to wear black was not what I was expecting. When a dramatic transition to vibrant colored clothing was allowed, you couldn’t help but feel worried that this was some kind of…
September’s Book Club: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
It’s been over a year since my coworker recommended The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle to us at one of our monthly journal club meetings. As with other books she’s recommended in the past, I added it to my to-read list with a grain of salt – some of the books that she’s loved I…
August’s Book Club: A Darker Shade Of Magic
There’s something about reading outside on a beautiful day that soothes the soul. Combine that with the promise of magic and well-developed characters and I’m sold. I’m going to be honest before starting my review, I had a hard time getting through this one and almost put it down after the fourth chapter. A Darker…
July’s Book Club: The Deep
One of the reasons that I picked up The Deep was because the description reminded me so much of the Giver, which if you haven’t read that yet you totally should. There’s something intriguing about the idea of a world where everyone lives in complete ignorance by sacrificing one person. In the Deep, Yetu is…
June’s Book Club: We Set the Dark on Fire
We Set the Dark on Fire’s byline of “let rebellion burn” combined with the contrasting doves on the cover drew me into this one. The colors chosen as a backdrop clearly selected to look like a fire in the night. This book had politics, rebellion, inner conflict, and a female female romance. Yes, it was…
May Book Club: The Wife Between Us
I picked the Wife Between Us up in honor of all the patrons who asked for help finding “the blue book they read a while ago”. The title seemed interesting enough, but the description sealed the deal. The idea that things aren’t what they seem is one of my favorite things to read about, the…
April Book Club: The Night Circus
The Night Circus has been casually sitting on my virtual to read shelf for years now, the black, white and red cover drawing me in as much as the title. The idea that magic was not only real but also a force running the circus spoke to me. The idea that it was a venue…
March Book Club: Gilded Wolves
I was not expecting the elements of this book to be what they were. In other words, I was expecting a heist that took place in Paris in 1889, not a book about people who have the ability to forge objects through manipulating elements. Actually, I might even go so far as to complain that…
February Book Club: The Undomestic Goddess
I’m not sure where to start with this one. For starters, nothing about this general plot of this story was surprising. Girl appears to make mistake, girl has to learn how to stand on her own two feet, girl realizes that she didn’t make a mistake, girl is offered a job back… etc etc. That…
January Book Club: Picnic at Hanging Rock
As I said in last month’s book club post, I don’t find myself reaching for historical fiction very often (unless it’s to sit down with a book that has become historical fiction, ie Jane Austen). It’s not that I don’t enjoy reading about a different time, it’s that I typically find myself drawn to books…
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