When Bobby and I initially decided to go to Ireland, we had to choose, out of a whole country of options, where to spend our time. You’d think we might choose based on main tourist attractions, but no, we chose based on a google search for hostels.

But finally I’m there in Ireland, stumping up to my little Irish hostel across a bridge from downtown Dublin. My roommates and I silently nodded at each other and then proceeded to ignore each other’s existence.

Imagine the Scarlett Pimpernel, teenaged version, in Polynesia, and trade the guillotine for a pill that destroys your brain functions.

“Oh my gosh.” My shoulder throbbing, I jerked my head up at the overhang to see an indentation the size of both my fists in the mud above my head. “Bobby, I think I just got hit by a falling rock!”

American Royals by Katharine McGee When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. Two and...

Whew—these books are not for the faint of heart! They are chilling and disturbing. In fact, there’s a part of the first book that I can barely read—not because of foul language or graphic violence, but because what’s being portrayed is so gut-wrenchingly, morally awful.

What draws me in is the theming of this book—it’s just so on pointe.

What I loved about this story was the build-up of clues and the reveal of smaller secrets as a distraction from the main attraction—why the Story siblings were disowned, and what that has to do with the present day.

Bobby and I tossed our (my) beachy-warm dreams to the wind and went for the exact opposite: a frozen adventure out on Utah Lake.

I actually really loved Ready Player Two. I thought it did a great job of continuing and expanding on the problems and themes from the first book without being a carbon copy of it

This book is all about voice. If you like the voice and narrative style, you will love this book. If you don’t, you probably won’t finish it.

This post is about the books I read this year. There were 88 in total and so many good ones. I did highlights for my favorites and then followed up with some honorable mentions and extras just for funsies.

You check your bed for the signs on the daily, even though the bedbug guys said you only need to check once a week when you wash your sheets. You can’t fall asleep at night because every itch or tickle makes you think there must be a bedbug on you

Here are 20 things I’m grateful for in 2020.

I know what you’re thinking. “You have bedbugs?! Gross!!!” Had, my friends. Had. Past tense. But oh my gosh, three most stressful days of 2020, and we’ve all lived through 2020, so . . . that should give you an idea of what it was like.

This is the sweetest graphic novel ever! And so seasonally appropriate—for a good fall read, this is a winner.

This is the story of Pride and Prejudice, so you make think there’s nothing to spoil, but what’s cool about the LBD is that it hits all the major plot plots of P&P but also gives them unique twists.

I loved the characters—teens who are highly talented athletes and performers but who struggle with various forms of anxiety that inhibit their performance. I

This book is about rape. It’s written in free verse that’s spare, punchy, and packed with nuance.

I’ve been waiting in line on Overdrive to read this since July, and it didn’t disappoint. This is the much-anticipated sequel to The Royal We, a story of an intercontinental romance featuring an alternate UK royal family and a tomboy from America.