This book is beautifully written. I wish I had the paperback version so I could see the aspects of it that were lost in the electronic version. The bits of poetry inserted in the book Made the book. I wasn't a big fan of the weird love triangle aspect of the book- I felt like it took away from th...
Another book club read. I liked this book for its Northern California setting, and for its characters, which could be appealingly quirky (although sometimes unbelievably quirky, as I feel is the case with so many YA books I read nowadays). It took me a few chapters to get into the rhythm of Lenni...
I galloped through this excellent first novel of Jandy Nelson's. One of my favorite YA reads of the last year or so, The Sky is Everywhere was both romantic and at the same time deeply sad, and each character felt real and alive to me in a way that is sometimes too rare in YA. What is more, Nelso...
This book left me speechless. I've never read prose like this, never been so very struck by the beauty of words before. I've never wanted so badly to shove a book into the hands of everyone I meet, but I want everyone--friends, family, coworkers, the cashier at the grocery store, the plumber--to ...
Many lives feel up-ended between the ages of 13 and 16, but for twins Noah and Jude, so, so much happens. He shifts from being the weird one to seeming so average; her badass surfing self disappears into baggy clothes and weird superstitions. In alternating sections, we live through life-changing...