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Let’s Talk About… Blogging Fatigue and Book Collecting
Hi everyone! If anyone has been checking in with my blog on a semi-regular basis you may have noticed that I’ve not been posting on a regular basis until very recently. I’ve redesigned my site to try and motivate me to do more blog posts, because I’d love to get back into it. Blogging is an amazing way of keeping up with the YA book community, of learning all the latest news and sharing your ideas. Without blogging, I definitely felt like I was behind on just about everything. For a while, I felt like I was missing out on a lot of new books, as well as more opportunities…
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Challenger Deep Book Review
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman From Goodreads: Caden Bosch is on a ship that’s headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behaviour. Caden Bosch is designated the ship’s artist in residence to document the journey with images. Caden Bosch pretends to join the school track team but spends his days walking for miles, absorbed by the thoughts in his head. Caden Bosch is split between his allegiance to the captain and the allure of mutiny. Caden Bosch is torn. Thanks to Netgalley and Walker Books for…
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Dear Evan Hansen Book Review
Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich et al. Dear Evan Hansen, Today’s going to be an amazing day and here’s why… When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family’s grief over the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend. Suddenly, Evan isn’t invisible anymore–even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy’s parents, with their beautiful home on the other side of town, have taken him…
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Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? Book Review
Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? by Holly Bourne From Goodreads: Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at “normality” for Olive, a girl on the edge, and for the new friends she never expected to make – who each have their own reasons for being there. Luckily Olive has a plan to solve all their problems. But how do you fix the world when you can’t fix yourself? Thanks so much to my awesome friend Moon for buying me a copy of this book at YALC. The novel was released a few days early at the convention, and I did read it…
