Top Ten Tuesday | Characters with a Disability

This week’s TTT was such a simple prompt, but it ended up being so much harder than I thought!  My first pick was ‘well adjusted YA characters’, but as hard as I tried I couldn’t find one, let alone ten! Books that feature a main character with a disability, mental illness, or physical handicap was […]

Top Ten Tuesday | The Reading Struggle is Real!

This weeks Top Ten Tuesday is all about the struggle.  The reading struggle.  I know a lot of us are faster to quit a book simply because we have so many books waiting to be picked up.  Still, there are those times where you feel in our gut that if we’d just hold on a little […]

Top Ten Tuesday | Hidden Gems in YA

10 Virtually Unknown YA Books I’m betting that some of you are thinking that YA is not a genre, and I would completely agree with you.  It’s not a genre, it’s a classification.  Basically, yes I am cheating.  See, I realized as I was looking through my read books that I don’t consider a lot […]

Top Ten Tuesday | School Age Favorites

10 of the Best Books I Read, NOT for School I hated reading school assigned books.  I have an aversion to reading what I’ve been instructed to.  I physically can’t retain anything, which I feel sounds like an excuse, but I mean it.  No matter how much I try, no matter how much focus, I […]

Book Vs. Movie | Before I Fall

It’s the age old question asked by any film or print fan around the planet. I know how many times I’ve been asked, ‘why would you read that, they made a movie?’ Obviously it’s because the book is always better. But is it really? Goodreads Synopsis: For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—”Cupid […]

Romance Fails in Fiction Tag

Wow, this tag actually makes me nervous.  I’m not sure I know exactly what a romance ‘fail’ is.  Is that a romance that doesn’t work out?  Or one that does, despite how unbelievable it is?  I tried googling it, but there was nothing concrete so I guess I’m going to wing it.  I’ll include a […]