Summer vacation is right around the corner and I personally feel like Summer is a great time to get some reading done. Whether you find yourself enjoying some time at the lake, whisked away on a dreamy holiday or just find yourself sitting through yet another youth baseball game, Summer has countless opportunities to get... Continue Reading →
Title: All the Dangerous Things Author: Stacy Willingham My Rating: ⭐⭐ (.5) Why I gave this rating: I didn’t love this storyline and didn’t love the characters. Didn’t love how they used mental health as an excuse for committing crimes. Read the entire thing and just never got into it. Was just reading till the... Continue Reading →
Title: Sometimes I Lie Author: Alice Feeney My Rating: ⭐ Why I gave this rating: This is the first Alice Feeney book I really didn’t like. It was lacking in so many ways compared to her others. It didn’t have the chapter-ending cliffhangers I’ve come to love about her writing. For a short book, I... Continue Reading →
Title: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Author: Daniel James Brown My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Why I gave this rating: This was a historical fiction book that I may not have normally picked up for myself, but I gifted it to my dad for... Continue Reading →
If you were to ask any of my friends or family what the last genre they would ever see me reading, they probably would automatically say thriller/horror. I am like the ultimate Scaredy Pants when anything horror is involved. I literally walked out of Pirates of the Caribbean and Harry Potter 4 (when I was... Continue Reading →
The Library Abroad 