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We Are Okay
This Post is Spoiler Free! We Are Okay by Nina LaCour. I can’t even begin to describe what this book means to me. I read it sometime last year, I think in late October? I needed it then. I remember reading it all in one sitting (while I was at work one really, really slow evening). I cried a lot. Then all of the hockey guys came in and my makeup was a little streaked, but it was okay because that wasn’t the first time they had seen me in tears over a book and the hockey dudes were very understanding. I needed this book again this year, though for…
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Let it Snow
This Post is Spoiler Free! I’m reading Let it Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle right now. It is split into three sections, one section/story per author, each with a different Main Character. I figured I’d write down quick thoughts of each story as I go along, and finish it off with thoughts on the book as a whole at the end! Here we go! The Jubilee Express by Maureen Johnson Mmm… what to say about this one. For one, it was super easy to read. At 117 pages long, it is definitely possible to read it in one sitting. It took me about an hour. So…
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One Way or Another
This Post is Spoiler Free! So… I don’t usually like YA Contemporaries. Great way to start out a review, right? You might be asking yourself why I even bother reading them if I don’t usually like them, and I have two answers for that question: 1. I appreciate any piece of writing as an opportunity to learn about the craft, and even if I don’t like the genre, there are bits of it I can incorporate into my own writing. 2. Sometimes I find a book I genuinely like. So far, the list consists solely of We Are Okay by Nina LaCour, Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, and now One Way…