A Blog of Books and Musicals

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke has been everywhere this year. It is flying off bookshelves and just about everyone in my book club has read it. It is also a novel that incites incredibly varied opinions. I’ve spoken to many readers about Yesteryear, and almost all of them either really loved it or really hated it. Even though this isn’t the type of boo...

I am a big John Green fan, and have been for more than a decade. I’ve read and loved all his books, including the two nonfiction ones, and ditto for the adaptations. Yes, I even watched Let it Snow. John Green is one of those authors who is weirdly popular to hate on, and I’ve always found it very annoying because while obviously everyone is entitled to like wha...

I read some great books this month!

The whole book works really, really well. The writing is exquisite, and I really love the delicate way that it approaches the subject matter. Tradwifes and the marriage between religion and right-wing politics are really big subjects right now and Burke mana...

Adib Khorram is one of those authors for me that if he writes it, I’ll read it. Most of his books are immediate reads (some of them are eventual reads), and when I found out he had a new contemporary YA novel I immediately requested it from the library.

What’s it about?

One Word, Six Letters follows two high school boys: Dayt...