The First Thing About You by Chaz Hayden The First Thing About You by Chaz Hayden is hands down one of the funniest books! Harris, a high school student with spinal muscular atrophy moves with his family from California to New Jersey. His favorite getting-to-know-you question is “What’s your favorite color?”. He is looking for […]
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Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of my most anticipated reads for the last half of 2022. Did it live up to the hype? Let’s take a look! Carrie Soto is a tennis legend, claiming 20 Grand Slam titles. For years, her father,
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Babel by RF Kuang RF Kuang, author of The Poppy War, is back with Babel, one of my most anticipated reads for the last half of 2022! Earlier this year, I came up with my dream author panel: RF Kuang, Patrick Rothfuss, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman. When thinking through this, I wanted to know
Living with Conviction by Toby Dorr Living With Conviction by Toby Dorr is an unbelievably true story about a prison break. Lifetime also featured this story in the film, Jailbreak Lovers. On February 12, 2006, Toby Dorr helped John Manard escape from prison at The Lansing Correctional Facility. In her free time, Toby served as
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is the latest by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night, solidly earning it a spot on my most anticipated books for July. Inspired by The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells, this book focuses on Carlota
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Verity by Colleen Hoover So what’s the scoop on Colleen Hoover’s Verity? I will never look at Steak n’ Shake the same way… Colleen Hoover and Lisa of Troy finally meet. Alright that’s weird. I am never referring to myself in the third person again…. In Verity, we find Lowen Ashleigh who is a down-on-her-luck
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Out of my entire reading list for 2022, more people commented about The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold than any of the other books combined! The Lovely Bones begins with the tragic death of a fourteen-year-old girl, Susie Salmon (like the fish). From there, we follow Susie’s family and
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card In Orson Scott Card’s science-fiction novel Ender’s Game, we meet Ender Wiggins, a talented little boy who has the fate of the world on his shoulders. After an extensive period of monitoring, Ender attends a school for gifted children, training to learn the techniques to battle the buggers, an
The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda Megan Miranda is back with her latest mystery, The Last to Vanish! In The Last to Vanish, we find Abigail Lovett, Abby, working in Cutter’s Pass at the local inn. Cutter’s Pass is haunted by a series of disappearances over the years. A journalist, Landon West, appears at
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The It Girl by Ruth Ware Ruth Ware’s The It Girl is a mystery centered on two friends/roommates: Hannah Jones and April Clarke-Cliveden. The girls meet up at Oxford and quickly team up with a group of friends: Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily. However, by the end of the year, April is dead. Now, ten
