L' amore sconosciuto

After much consideration, I think I’m going to begin this review with what has to be the hoity toity-est opening I have ever come up with. Gird thy loins, mes amies. In her 2006 book Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (don’t say you weren’t warned), philosopher Rebecca Goldste Leggi tutto

“Love is when you like someone so much that you can’t just call it “like,” so you have to call it “love.” Rebecca Stead is one of my favourite middle grade authors, so I was incredibly excited to read her latest book, Goodbye Stranger . Liar & Spy and When You Reach Me feel a little younger, b Leggi tutto

this was one of the first arcs i ever read :) and it was exactly fine. add it to the running list of my villain origin story. part of a series i'm doing in which i review books i read a long time ago

3 stars I will always have Rebecca Stead on my radar after reading her perfect Newberry Award-winning When You Reach Me (an homage to Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time ). Ms. Stead is one of the best 'middle grade' authors I've encountered. I don't want to dissuade anyone from reading Goodbye St

I had a lot of issues with this book. A lot of issues. First, seeing after the fact that this is probably meant to be more for the pre-YA crowd makes this book all the more puzzling as the subject matter is pretty mature on a whole, with a key plot point being middle schoolers sending racier and rac Leggi tutto

I often say that there's YA for Everyone (i.e. it's published under that designation, but presents no barriers of enjoyment to older readers) and YA for Teens (totally acceptable books that nonetheless trade in archetypes or tropes that will have lost their freshness and, thereby, their emotional im Leggi tutto