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 […]