All The Diversity: 2017

Top 10 book of 2017

Saturday, December 30, 2017

I managed to read 32 book during 2017, which isn't bad when you take into consideration a new job (that ultimately didn't work out which is why I found a new job that I'll be starting in about 3 weeks), and plowing through classes so that I could finish my grad school degree before 2018. Of those 32 books these are my top 10 favorite (not in any order)! American Street by Ibi Zoboi (this...

Friday, December 29, 2017

Blogging world, I went away for a while, and from the title of this post, I'm sure you all know why. I FINALLY FINISHED GRAD SCHOOL AFTER FIVE YEARS. via GIPHY Five years of late nights, study sessions, APA cited papers,website, videos, internship hours (even though I work full time in a library, we'll let that go) and so much more. After loans, and cleaning out my bank account for classes when I decided not to take out any more loans, and some tears I have a Masters in Library and Information...

Sunday, November 26, 2017

In the past I've only used this blog to post about books, BUT I HAVE TO DO MY PART AND TELL THE WORLD ABOUT THIS NEW WEB SERIES. The other day I fell down a YouTube hole and tripped over a web show called Black Girl in a Big Dress. The show was created by Aydrea Walden, it's about an African American girl who who loves to cosplay play as if she's in the Victorian times, poofy blue dress and all....

Monday, November 6, 2017

Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father’s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and imagination.As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenth-century China, the land from One Thousand and One Nights, a mythic version of Africa. Along the way they have found crewmates and friends, and even a disarming...

Monday, October 16, 2017

In a village without sound… For as long as Fei can remember, no one in her village has been able to hear. Rocky terrain and frequent avalanches make it impossible to leave the village, so Fei and her people are at the mercy of a zipline that carries food up the treacherous cliffs from Beiguo, a mysterious faraway kingdom. When villagers begin to lose their sight, deliveries from the zipline...

Monday, October 2, 2017

Tall, meaty, muscle-bound, and hairier than most throw rugs, Dylan doesn’t look like your average fifteen-year-old, so, naturally, high school has not been kind to him. To make matters worse, on the day his school bans hats (his preferred camouflage), Dylan goes up on his roof only to fall and wake up in the hospital with a broken leg—and a mandate to attend group therapy for self-harmers.Dylan...

Monday, September 25, 2017

When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she isn't sure if she'll ever want to go back. L.A. is where her friends and family are (along with her crush, Emil). And her stepbrother, Lionel, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, needs her emotional support.But as she settles into her old life, Suzette finds herself falling for someone new...the...

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Okay, I'm so fed up I need to rant to the world. If you've read my super awkward About Me post, you'll know that I'm a librarian, I was a weird, sad little kid and now I'm trying to make the world a better place for other weird, sad little kids and misunderstood teenagers. Every single day, I watch parents try to force "real books" on their kids. It's driving me CRAZY. What in the heck does that even mean. Dear grown ups (because it's not always the parents) let your kids read whatever the heck...

Friday, September 1, 2017

Book Blogger Hop This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Question: Do you participate in the Bloggiesta? Answer: I have no idea what that is, but I'm going to look into it ASAP because it sounds lovely...

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read! I want this so bad! I'm almost afraid to read it. I'm going to get this book, read these meet cutes, and I'll be mad that I don't have the rest of their stories. Ugh. *** Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every...

Monday, August 28, 2017

It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings - the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she can see. Could it be a mermaid? As her grandmother shares wisdom about sayings and signs, Maddy realizes she may be the only sibling to carry on her...

Friday, August 25, 2017

Book Blogger Hop This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Question: Have you ever read a book written in a foreign language you might be fluent in, and then read the same book in English? Answer: I took four years of Spanish and I'd be lucky if I could introduce myself properly. The only language I'm fluent in is English, so no, I have never read a book in...

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read! As we can see, there's no cover yet, but I CAN'T WAIT for this book. It's the fourth book in the Shatter Me series that I was pretty sure I would never get but have wished for!! *** Juliette Ferrars thought she'd won. She took over Sector 45,...

Monday, August 14, 2017

4 Stars! Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed "America's Fattest Teen". But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom's death, she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now Libby's ready: for high school, for new friends, for love, and for every...

Saturday, August 12, 2017

Book Blogger Hop This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Question: Do you participate in readathons and/or reading challenges? Answer: Absolutely not! I have no time for that. As a librarian I can sit on book award committees which require you to read certain books over a specified amount of time.With the exception of those committee's and my Goodreads challenge,...

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read! We've got a black girl, in a beautiful dress (I'm not about those ruffles), and a dragon tail curling around her feet. Need I say more. BeforeMira Minkoba is the Hopebearer. Since the day she was born, she’s been told she’s special. Important....

Monday, August 7, 2017

Publisher: Macmillan Publication Date: April 6, 2016 Rating: 2.5 stars Celestine North lives a perfect life. She's a model daughter and sister, she's well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she's dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. But then Celestine encounters a situation where she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule. And now faces life-changing repercussions.She could...

Friday, August 4, 2017

My friends and I do an online, transcontinental, book club and we had lots of thoughts about the book Saving Red. Here they are!...

Book Blogger Hop This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Question: Do you ever go "way back" to when you first started blogging and look at your old review posts? Do you see any differences from then to now? Answer: I haven't looked at old posts in a while. I use to do it all the time. My tone generally hasn't changed, but I think my thoughts are a bit more...

Friday, July 28, 2017

Book Blogger Hop This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. This weeks question: Do you read tie-in novels to movies or television series? If so which ones? My Answer: I've watched some of the movies for books that I've read. If i watch the movie first I don't normally read the books. If we're talking about when books are written based off a movie...

Monday, July 24, 2017

Publisher: Bloomsbury Children Books Publication date: July 2, 2015 Rating: 4 stars Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie is allergic to electricity. Contact with it causes debilitating seizures. Moritz’s weak heart is kept pumping by an electronic pacemaker. If they ever did meet, Ollie would seize. But Moritz would die without his pacemaker. Both hermits from society,...

Friday, July 21, 2017

Book Blogger Hop This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Have you ever read a book or books you would consider toxic because of the effect it (they) had on you. If so which one. I was scrolling through my Goodreads to see if I had ever read a book that I would consider toxic and I found one. Kill Me Softly is the biggest mess of a book that I have...

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Publisher: Point Publication Date: April 26, 2016 Rating: 4 stars Ellia Dawson doesn't recognize the handsome boy who sits in tears by her hospital bed. He claims he's her boyfriend, Liam. But to Ellia, he's a stranger. She remembers her name. Her parents. Her best friend, Stacey. But Liam is a total blank in her life. Liam McPherson is devastated. His girlfriend, Ellia, suffered a terrible...

Friday, July 7, 2017

Book Blogger Hop This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. This weeks question is: In one sentence, describe your passion for reading. Answer: Reading is Life!!!...

Monday, July 3, 2017

Rating: 3.75 stars Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection. So she’s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful. Then a cute new girl enters Cassie’s orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly’s cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly's...

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Rating: 3 Stars No one expects the apocalypse. One moment Arden Highmore was living the life of an average Upstate New York postgrad, and the next the world went dark. No internet, no power, no running water—and no one knows why. All she and her roommate, John Seong, know for sure is that they have to get out, stat. His family’s cabin in a town near the Canadian border seems like the...

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Rating: 4 Stars For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down Warcross players who bet on the game illegally. But...

Friday, June 16, 2017

Book Blogger Hop This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. This weeks question is: How do you organize your blog in terms of what is in your side bar? Do you have categories and defined sections in your side bar? This is such a helpful question. Thank you whoever submitted it. So I've been blogging for about four years on an off, but this...

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Rating: 5 stars Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.Daniel: I’ve always...

Friday, June 9, 2017

Book Blogger Hop Welcome to my first Blogger Hop on my new blog!! This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. This weeks question is: If you could have lunch with any living authors and/ or book blogger, who would you choose and why? I'm going to cheat and choose two people because they are so different they are impossible to choose between. First I would...

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Rating: 5 Stars Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she’s determined not to get too close to anyone. But when she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can’t help but start to let him into her life. As they spend more time together, she realizes just how much she is losing by guarding her...

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Rating: 4 stars A thrilling reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, The Steep and Thorny Way tells the story of a murder most foul and the mighty power of love and acceptance in a state gone terribly rotten. 1920s Oregon is not a welcoming place for Hanalee Denney, the daughter of a white woman and an African-American man. She has almost no rights by law, and the Ku Klux Klan breeds...

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