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Toggle navigationHomeAboutReading Lists 2022 Book List2021 Book List2020 Book List2019 Book List2018 Book List2017 Book List2016 Book List2015 Book List2014 Book List2013 Book ListBook ReviewsProjects Read All the SKWomen’s Prize for FictionBlog Events Readathons#VintageSciFi#Zombruary#ThankfullyReading#AMonthofFavesMini-Review: The Gravity of Us by Phil StamperPosted March 10, 2022 by Heather in Book Reviews / 0 CommentsCal is an aspiring journalist in Brooklyn, NY with almost half a million followers on his FlashFame profile. He’s even snagged an internship at Buzzfeed. But then his father gets chosen as a potential pilot for a NASA mission to Mars. The mission is highly-publicized and has its own reality TV show, and within days, Cal and his parents have moved to Clear Lake, Texas. The internship is blown and Cal is being told he can’t even broadcast his own videos. It looks like his journalistic dreams are going to be ruined…or are they? Then Cal meets Leon, whose mother […]Read More »Mini-Review: Heartstopper, Volume One by Alice OsemanPosted March 4, 2022 by Heather in Book Reviews / 0 CommentsOseman, A. (2020).Heartstopper: Volume one. Graphix. Charlie Spring has been having a less than stellar year at Truham Grammar School for Boys, but the bullying has ended, at least. He’s openly gay, since being outed the year before, but most of the other students at the school have accepted it and moved on. Charlie is in a secret relationship with a boy named Ben, who is publicly dating a girl, and who treats Charlie horribly. Then Charlie meets Nick Nelson. Nick is a rugby player who is a year ahead of Charlie in school, but when they are assigned seats […]Read More »Mini-Review: Legendborn by Tracy DeonnPosted March 2, 2022 by Heather in Book Reviews / 0 CommentsDeonn, T. (2020).Legendborn. Margaret K. McElderry Books. Bree Matthews is sixteen years old when her mother dies in a hit-and-run car accident. The last conversation she had with her mother was an argument over Bree applying for UNC-Chapel Hill’s Early College program. After her mother’s death, this program is just what Bree thinks she needs to get away from bad memories and her childhood home. But when she witnesses a magical attack on her first day on campus, which includes a failed attempt at wiping Bree’s memory of everything she sees, it leads her to a secret society of students […]Read More »Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo Switch) Mini-ReviewPosted February 23, 2022 by Heather in Stuff / 0 CommentsAnimal crossing: New horizons (Switch version) [Video game]. (2020). Nintendo. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH), players escape on a deserted island getaway where they can create their own version of paradise. The natural resources on the island can be used to create and customize tools, furniture, and other items. Players can customize the appearance of their in-game character and the appearance of their house (both inside and out). Players can even customize the layout of the island using the landscaping and waterscaping tools! Players can go fishing, catch bugs, and dig up fossils, and all can be donated to […]Read More »Mini-Review: The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds ReedPosted February 21, 2022 by Heather in Book Reviews / 0 CommentsReed, C.H. (2020). The black kids. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Ashley Bennett is a Black girl in a wealthy family living in Los Angeles. She and her (white) friends are skipping school more than attending, and they’re enjoying the last weeks of their senior year of high school when the four LAPD officers who beat Rodney King are acquitted of all charges. Los Angeles explodes with rioting and violence. As the protests, rioting, and looting continue, Ashley feels less like “one of the girls” and more and more like one of the Black kids in her predominately white […]Read More »Mini-Review: Furia by Yamile Saied MéndezPosted February 18, 2022 by Heather in Book Reviews / 0 CommentsMéndez, Y.S. (2020). Furia. Algonquin Young Readers. Camila Hassan lives in Rosario, Argentina with her narrow-minded and timid mother, her abusive father, and her rising fútbol star brother. Camila’s family doesn’t have a lot of money, and girls in her neighbohood keep going missing. Toxic masculinity is a big part of the culture in Camila’s world, and she’s looking forward to graduating from high school and getting out of Rosario for good. So, she works hard and does well in school and plays the dutiful daughter. But Camila has a major secret: she also loves playing fútbol is a rising star […]Read More »Mini-Review: Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManusPosted February 14, 2022 by Heather in Book Reviews / 0 CommentsTwo Can Keep a Secret is a 329-page, fast-paced young adult mystery thriller novel published in 2019 by Delacorte Press. It’s told from the first-person perspectives of two teenage characters: Ellery Corcoran and Malcolm Kelly. Ellery and her twin brother Ezra have been sent to live with their grandmother in Echo Ridge, a small, picture-perfect New England town with very dark secrets. Young girls have been going missing in Echo Ridge for years, starting with their mother’s twin sister at the age of 17. Five years after that, the homecoming queen went missing and was found dead at Murderland, the […]Read More »Mini-Review: A Wrinkle in Time (Film, 2018)Posted February 2, 2022 by Heather in Stuff / 6 CommentsDuVernay, A. (Director). (2018). A wrinkle in time [Film]. Walt Disney Pictures and Whitaker Entertainment. Meg Murry is having a hard time at school due to bullying and depression. Her younger brother, Charles Wallace, isn’t having an easy time of it, either. When the film begins, their astrophysicist father has been missing for four years and everyone is still having a hard time adjusting to his absence. Then one night, a strange woman named Mrs. Whatsit shows up on their doorstep and tells them that what Mr. Murry had been working on is real. This work has taken him to another planet […]Read More »Mini-Review: Stolen Justice by Lawrence GoldstonePosted January 31, 2022 by Heather in Book Reviews / 0 CommentsGoldstone, L. (2020). Stolen justice: The struggle for african american voting rights. Scholastic Focus. In Stolen Justice, author Lawrence Goldstone writes about the struggle for, and suppression of, voting rights for Black Americans in the post-Reconstruction era. He details the systematic effort white supremacists made to ensure that people of color remained disenfranchised after the end of the Civil War. Central to the legal side of the battle was the Supreme Court, which time and time again made decisions that would keep Black voters disenfranchised. As the author writes: “Always claiming strict adherence to the language of the law, they ruled time […]Read More »Mini-Review: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzPosted January 29, 2022 by Heather in Book Reviews / 2 CommentsSáenz, B.A. (2012).Aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe. Simon and Schuster. It’s 1987, and 15-year-old Aristotle “Ari” Mendoza finds himself back at the local public pool, listening to the disgusting lifeguards talk about girls and wishing he had anything else to do. Ari doesn’t have friends and his siblings are much older than he is. Everyone in Ari’s house avoids talking about anything important, especially his father’s time in Vietnam and his older brother’s life in prison. Along comes Dante Quintana, who offers to teach Ari how to swim. The boys quickly bond, become inseparable, and survive […]Read More »Mini-Review: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’EnglePosted January 28, 2022 by Heather in Book Reviews / 0 CommentsL’Engle, M. (1962).A wrinkle in time. Ariel Books. A Wrinkle in Timeby Madeleine L’Engle is a 1962 sci-fi/fantasy classic about Meg Murry, a teenage girl who has been having a rough time at school. She doesn’t conform to her peers’ expectations, and she generally doesn’t feel comfortable in her own skin. Her scientist father has been missing for over a year, and rumor has it that he’s left Meg’s mother for another woman, even though everyone in Meg’s family knows that he disappeared during one of his many experiments. One stormy night, a strange woman named Mrs. Whatsit shows up […]Read More »123…11Next »Subscribe to Blog via EmailCurrently Reading2022 Reading Goal17 / 100CategoriesBook DiscussionBook ReviewsChallengesMonth in ReviewProjectsReadathonsStuffSunday SalonArchivesArchivesSelect Month March 2022 (3) February 2022 (5) January 2022 (4) June 2021 (1) April 2021 (1) March 2021 (3) February 2021 (2) January 2021 (1) December 2020 (1) September 2020 (2) August 2020 (6) July 2020 (10) June 2020 (5) May 2020 (8) April 2020 (9) March 2020 (6) February 2020 (9) January 2020 (10) December 2019 (16) November 2019 (5) May 2019 (2) March 2019 (3) February 2019 (6) January 2019 (1) July 2018 (1) June 2018 (1)Instagram: froodianslip_heather When you restart your island and the museum closes Latest book mail! I learned about this series from It’s been a minute since I posted anything, but Y’all…how did I not know this is a thing?! Thi More exciting book mail! 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