History of Wolves ~ Emily Fridlund

A couple of disclaimers: This is not a story about wolves. Also I may invariably spoil parts of the plot, as I feel the need to talk about the feelings I felt reading this book, and I can't find a way to do that without disclosing major plot points, but I can comfortably say you …

Human Acts ~ Han Kang

A collection of short stories regarding brutal violence in South Korea, this tragic book was difficult to read, but left my eyes a little wider to the events of the world. The opening story follows the death of Dong-Ho, and appropriately the final story is about Dong-Ho's mother, but there are several different perspectives in …

Everything Everything ~ Nicola Yoon

So, I just moved to a small town in Vermont where the library is about the size of my bedroom. It's tiny! There aren't that many options, but fortunately it's part of a 12 library network and I can get inter-library loans. Anyways, this is the first book I checked out with my library card. …

The Magicians ~ Lev Grossman

I knew almost nothing about this book besides having seen it all over the internet for the last few years when I picked it up, but I'm sure it was better this way. You see, The Magicians begins on a premise very similar to both The Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter, and there's no …

The Unexpected Everything

Rating: Morgan Matson Andie is the kind of girl who has everything planned, from what her summer internship will be like, to how her friends interact, to how long she dates her boyfriends. Needless to say, when something goes wrong with her planned internship, and slowly pieces of her life fall outside of the plan …

Dumplin’ ~ Julie Murphy

Rating: 8/10 Dumplin' has been fairly well received by the public, and I can see why. Will, short for Willowdean, is a teenage girl, going to High School, living with her mom, and working at a fast food restaurant. Everything changes for her when she ends up making out with her hot coworker behind a …

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. ~ Adele Waldman

Rating: 5/10 Well, this book was exactly as it sounds. The cover looked fun, and I often judge books by their covers, so I hoped I wouldn't be too disappointed, but even so my expectations were dashed to pieces. I expected short stories, but Waldman combined a series of romances together kind of sporadically, sometimes …

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry ~ Neal DeGrasse Tyson

Rating: 8/10 I am the target audience for this book. I know very little about how the universe works since the last science class I took was College Chem I, but I enjoy the idea of science and want to learn more. This book took concepts that I knew the basics about, such as light, …