Category: Contemporary Fiction
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The Floating Girls by Lo Patrick is a sad story about how every family has its secrets. Kay Whitaker is twelve when the story opens and lives in the small and extremely rural town of Bledsoe, Georgia. Over summer break while exploring the neighboring marsh she stumbles upon a stilt house and meets the inhabitants,…
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9:26 by Hussein Kandil is a story that is threefold. Jad is a man who has become adrift after a tragic accident and finds himself on a bus populated by people who tend to speak in riddles and are both independent but co-dependent. Alongside him we have Bilal, a young man who wishes to fulfill…
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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…
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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 teenager I’ve been working my way through this list, “500 books every teen should read”…
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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…