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Review Time: The Upside of Unrequited

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Title: The Upside of Unrequited

Author: Becky Albertalli

Published: 2017/04/11

Version: Hardcover

Started: 2017/06/04

Finished: 2017/06/16

Rating: 5/5

Synopsis:

Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love—she’s lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection. So she’s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.

Then a cute new girl enters Cassie’s orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly’s cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly’s totally not dying of loneliness—except for the part where she is. Luckily, Cassie’s new girlfriend comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick. Will is funny and flirtatious and just might be perfect crush material. Maybe more than crush material. And if Molly can win him over, she’ll get her first kiss and she’ll get her twin back.

There’s only one problem: Molly’s coworker Reid. He’s an awkward Tolkien superfan with a season pass to the Ren Faire, and there’s absolutely no way Molly could fall for him. Right?  Continue reading →

Book Review: A List of Cages

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A List of Cages
Title: A List of Cages
Author: Robin Roe
Published: 2017/01/10
Version: Hardcover
Started: 2017/05/20
Finished: 2017/05/21
Rating: 5/5

Goodread Synopsis: When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he’s got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn’t easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can’t complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy is Julian—the foster brother he hasn’t seen in five years.


Adam is ecstatic to be reunited. At first, Julian seems like the boy he once knew. He’s still kindhearted. He still writes stories and loves picture books meant for little kids. But as they spend more time together, Adam realizes that Julian is keeping secrets, like where he hides during the middle of the day, and what’s really going on inside his house. Adam is determined to help him, but his involvement could cost both boys their lives…  Continue reading →

Review: Windfall

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Windfall
Title: Windfall
Author: Jennifer E. Smith
Published: 2017/05/02
Version: Hardcover
Started: 2017/05/21
Finished: 2017/05/22
Rating: 4/5

Goodreads Synopsis: Let luck find you.

Alice doesn’t believe in luck—at least, not the good kind. But she does believe in love, and for some time now, she’s been pining for her best friend, Teddy. On his eighteenth birthday—just when it seems they might be on the brink of something—she buys him a lottery ticket on a lark. To their astonishment, he wins $140 million, and in an instant, everything changes. Continue reading →

Review Time: The Edge of Everything

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Title: The Edge of Everything
Author: Jeff Giles
Published: 2017/01/31
Version: Hardcover
Started: 2017/06/01
Finished: 2017/06/01
Rating: 3/5

Synopsis: For the perfect love, what would you be willing to lose?

It’s been a shattering year for seventeen-year-old Zoe, who’s still reeling from her father’s shockingly sudden death in a caving accident and her neighbors’ mysterious disappearance from their own home. Then on a terrifying sub-zero, blizzardy night in Montana, she and her brother are brutally attacked in a cabin in the woods—only to be rescued by a mysterious bounty hunter they call X.

X is no ordinary bounty hunter. He is from a hell called the Lowlands, sent to claim the soul of Zoe’s evil attacker and others like him. X is forbidden from revealing himself to anyone other than his prey, but he casts aside the Lowlands’ rules for Zoe. As they learn more about their colliding worlds, they begin to question the past, their fate, and their future Continue reading →

Top Ten Tuesday…

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Oh boy look at the time! It’s Tuesday again!

Top 10 Tuesday, is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.  Since there are two of us here, we’re going to split this in half. Today’s Tuesday is: Top Ten Books that will make you read the whole day away. Continue reading →

Review: Start With Why by Simon Sinek

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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take ActionTitle: Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Author: Simon Sinek

Published: 2009

Pages: 256

Version: audio

Started: 2017/02/01

Finished: 2017/02/05

Rating: 4/5

Goodreads Synopsis: Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? Continue reading →