**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** Killing November by Adriana Mather ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Ember, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0525579113 Available: Library binding, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook. November Adley was told she was being sent to boarding school for her own safety, but on her arrival, she discovers it is full of intrigues she knows nothing about but […]
Book Review: The Graces by Laure Eve
October 5, 2020**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** The Graces by Laure Eve ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Amulet Books, 2016 ISBN-13 : 978-1419721236 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook The narrator of The Graces is new to town, and ready to shed her old identity, including her name. The centers of attention at her school are the Graces, seventeen-year-old twins Thalia and Fenrin, […]
TV Review: Vampire Diaries season 1
October 3, 2020Like a lot of people stuck at home, I’ve started binging all those shows I’ve been wanting to watch. I put this one off because I’m not an unbiased viewer. As a teen I was a huge LJ Smith fan. Fan activities and informal clubs led to some major life events, some friendships I still […]
Book Review: Crave (Crave #1) by Tracy Wolff
October 1, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Crave (Crave #1) by Tracy Wolff ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Entangled Teen, 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1640638952 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Grace’s parents died in a car accident, leaving her no choice but to leave her home in California and unenthusiastically move to Alaska, where her uncle, now her guardian, is headmaster at […]
Graphic Novel Review: Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito
September 28, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito Viz Media, 2018 ISBN-13: 9781974703760 Available: Hardcover, Kindle, comiXology Junji Ito, the master of horror manga, adapts Mary Shelley’s classic, Frankenstein in this graphic collection. Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with creating life from death. He stops at nothing to create his giant, only to […]
Book Review: Deathless Divide (Dread Nation #2) by Justina Ireland
September 24, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Deathless Divide (Dread Nation #2) by Justina Ireland Balzer + Bray, 2020 ISBN-13: 9780062570635 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, MP3 CD Deathless Divide is the sequel to Dread Nation (reviewed here). The story is told through both Jane and Katherine’s points of view. After the fall of the Survivalists’ community of […]
Book Review: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
September 21, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Gallery/Saga Press ISBN-13: 978-1982136451 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD The past year, for me, has been the year of menacing deer. After encountering the demonically controlled deer that trap unwitting victims in the Pennsylvania woods in Imaginary Friend and the unsettling antelope […]
*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Betty Bites Back: Stories to Scare the Patriarchy edited by Mindy McGinnis, Demitria Lunetta, and Kate Karyus Quinn Demitria Lunetta, 2019 ISBN-13: 9781733666749 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Betty Bites Back contains sixteen short stories and poems about girls and women who are done being held down, stepped on, and demeaned […]
Book Review: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
September 14, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Doubleday, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-0385541213 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD The Starless Sea starts with a book-loving graduate student, Zachary Ezra Rawlins, who is writing his thesis on video games, finding a mysterious book of stories in his school’s library that includes […]
Book Review: The Burning by Laura Bates
September 10, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* The Burning by Laura Bates Sourcebooks Fire, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1728206738 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition Reading Laura Bates’ The Burning was like a dizzying fall down a rabbit hole to hell. Anna, the main character, has moved to a new town and a new school to escape a scandal at her old […]