Review: A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard

Steffi Brons is not the kind of girl most people notice. She suffered from selective mutism for years and tends to fade into the background. When Rhys Gold, a handsome deaf student with no idea how vocally silent she is, comes into her life Steffi has a way to communicate with him that doesn’t rely …

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Book Review: The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

The Sleeper and the Spindle combines two classic fairytale and gives them a delicious twist. A queen, complete with dwarf escorts, goes on a quest the day before her wedding to save a kingdom and a princess from a witch’s enchantment. This is Snow White meets Sleeping Beauty but not in a way we have ever seen …

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(Connected by Verse): The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan

I’m not sure how David Levithan does it but with each book of his I read, I fall a little more in love with his writing style. The Realm of Possibility is a novel told in verse and follows twenty high school students as they navigate love, life and growing up. Each character may only have …

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Book Review: Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire

Title: Walking Disaster (Beautiful #2) Author: Jamie McGuire Genre: Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Romance, New Adult  Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: March 2013 Pages: 448  Rating: 3.5 stars Synopsis (from goodreads): Finally, the highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Disaster. Can you love someone too much? Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother …

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(When Love Can’t Be Defined): The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan

This is a novel where the start isn’t really the beginning. The conclusion doesn’t finish the story. But instead, this book is more like a series of snapshots into a couple’s relationship. And each snapshot has then been placed in order – not chronologically, but rather in alphabetical order. I thought it was a very …

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