Rating:4/5 Snotgirl is the story of a popular blogger and her life behind the scenes. Her emotions play out all over the place, and she is so self-conscious that she is constantly obsessing over where she stands in relation to other people. She wants to be the coolest, prettiest, most lovable, and most popular girl

I’m really not sure if I can finish this book. Much of the writing is very homogenous, all the sentences are the same lengthy verbose creatures that carry on and on. The story feels like I am slowly dragging my feet through a bog, and there is some humor within, but very little, and I

Rating: 5/5 The second installment in the Scott Pilgrim series really picked up the pace! With lots of fight scenes and internal drama amongst the group of friends, this book was quick moving. In fact, some of the graphics happened so fast I had to slow down in order to catch what was happening. I

Rating:5/5 The Universal Laws of Marco struck me as yet another coming of age story about some High Schoolers, and I wasn’t sure I was in the mood for it. However, not too far into the book, my opinion began to shift. Rodrigues gives us a dual perspective, but not from different characters, but rather

Rating:3/5 This romance novel was funny and delightful, but not without a few annoying plot elements. Khai’s mother traveled back to Ho Chi Minh City not with the sole purpose of travelling back to her homeland, but also to find Khai a bride. He struggled with relating to women, and is not sure how to

Rating: 5/5 Trigger warning for violence towards LGBT kids. This non-fiction story about two teens in Oakland, CA is absolutely heartbreaking and so necessary. This tells the story of Sasha, a transgender teen and senior in High School, middle class and white, who loves wearing skirts. And it also tells the story of Richard, a

Rating: 3/5 I didn’t love this book as much as I thought I would. After reading A Little Life, I was looking for another book that would leave me in similar emotional turmoil, and while this was the book that was recommended as a similar read to A Little Life, it did not fulfill my

Rating: 1/5 Don’t waste your time! I started this book nearly two years ago and made it over 500 pages before realizing it would not get any better. Stephen King is quite pompous in the introduction in which he attempts to validate publishing an uncut version of this book which is nearly 400 pages longer

Rating: 4/5 Bridge of Clay is Markus Zusak’s, author of The Book Thief, most recent novel. Marketed as a young adult novel, this story is a very smart look at five brothers, their mother and father, and a few of their close friends and neighbors. Bridge of Clay reveals its story through bits and pieces

Rating: 3/5 I was not thrilled by this book as I expected to be. In fact, I found the first half of the book downright boring. The second half had a bit more action and more of the fairytale elements I was looking for. Alice was pretty whiny throughout the whole story, and kind of