Category: Contemporary Fiction

  • This book is probably not one that I would have picked to read by myself but I received it through the early reviewers program with Library thing so I went ahead and read it. The book in question was 52 weeks: A Party of One by Bianca Pensy Aba. It opens on New Years with…

  • This next book is one that you have probably already heard of and may have even read already. I know it is both popular and controversial. However, neither of those are why I read it. Ever since I was a teenage I’ve been working my way through this list, “500 books every teen should read”…

  • Banning books is a bit of a hot topic in the United States right now. A topic that is handled rather adroitly in the book, Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller. The book opens with Beverly Underwood, a member of the school board in Troy, Georgia and a woman who champions…