Going into reading The Black Coats by Colleen Oakes, I was pretty thrilled at the general premise and what it would hold for me. And I don't know quite what it was that I expected, but the truth is that the story I got was not it. And I've changed my rating several times while considering…
These two requests are both by the same author and both about pollution of places where animals live. I definitely see them both as important books and I couldn't be more pleased to see that children are being exposed to these issues early with stories like the ones that Chez Rafter is writing. The lake…
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It took me a bit longer to find the 10 books for this Top Ten Tuesday than I imagined it would, but here we are, finally, with ten books being published in the coming tail end of 2019 and there's even one…
Ugh. I almost wanted to read Unleaving by Melissa Ostrom. I'm still tempted, but that temptation is somewhat tempered by the fact that this book includes some ridiculous tension involved in a potential murder or kidnapping. And I just cannot. Why, why would someone ruin a book about the aftermath of sexual assault, the trauma, and the…
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