One of the first young adult books I read six years ago when I started reading YA seriously is THE BOOK THIEF. I was at my local toy & book store, Child’s Play, and the owner/bookseller Phyllis was raving about a book narrated by Death and written by a handsome Aussie. That book, of course,…
Unputdownable: Red Rising & Golden Son by Pierce Brown
A year and a half ago, we inaugurated a feature called “Unputdownable,” which we described as follows: A category to use any time we read a book that we figuratively couldn’t put down, even though our husbands and children and chores and jobs may have required us to abandon it from time to time… a…
A Mother and Daughter’s Top Five Books
One of the best parts about reading YA books is that I can share them with my daughter. So often when I read books I immediately think to myself, “I want my daughter to read this.” Luckily, she loves to read and is open to reading almost anything that I suggest. Sometimes she doesn’t quite…