Books

Welcome back to the Georgia Nicolson Readalong! Quick refresher: in honour of our dearly departed Teen Queen Louise Rennison, I started a readalong so that we could read (or re-read) her classic Georgia Nicolson series. Every three weeks we’ll post about the next book in the series. You’re invited to join in at any time! You can…

With Malice by Eileen Cook, via HMH Books, out now. Jill is pretty disoriented when she wakes up. In fact she can barely move or speak. Her head feels like it’s going to explode. Jill didn’t just wake up from a long night of partying – she woke up in a hospital with no memory of…

Here we are with another couple YA reviews! Told you guys I’ve piled them up lately. Today we have two super cute contemporaries about young girls who are loveable but need to go through a life lesson or two in order to see their surroundings a bit differently. Flannery by Lisa Moore, via Groundwood Books, out now. Flannery,…

I have some shorter reviews here for you today – I’ve been packing on the books lately (and it feels so goooood) and I don’t feel like stretching out reviews for weeks! Here we have two quick young adult reads that were recently published – Meredith Russo’s If I Was Your Girl and Kimberly McCreight’s The Outliers. Both compelling and…

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West, via Hachette Book Group, out now. I didn’t know Lindy West’s work well before I started reading Shrill. I knew she was the woman who wrote an awesome article about being fat at her wedding for the Guardian, and when I heard about the book, I just…

Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety by Ann Y K Choi, via Simon & Schuster Canada, out now. [I received this book from Simon & Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review; this did not affect my opinion of the book whatsoever.] Mother-daughter relationship and cultural background issues intertwine in Ann Y K Choi’s first novel, Kay’s…