Children's Book Review and GIVEAWAY: How to Read a Book, by Kwame Alexander and Melissa Sweet {ends 8/7}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley Don’t rush though: Your eyes need time to taste. Your soul needs room to bloom. What an adorable picture book! It inspired me to want to do something crafty, and read a book. Official synopsis: A stunning new picture book from Newbery...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY - At the Narrow Waist of the World: A Memoir, by Marlena Maduro Baraf {ends 8/6}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley In any one year there were only three or four of us Jewish girls at Las Esclavas – always primas. We were a small group of Jews, about a hundred family units, and those of us niñas who attended Las Esclavas had to go to Mass before class like...

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Quick Pick book review: Twice in a Blue Moon, by Christina Lauren

Opening lines: (Fourteen years ago) Nana turned to inspect the hotel room. Behind her, the curtains drifted closed with a whisper. With her dark, sharp eyes, she surveyed the cream and red decor, the generic paintings, and the television she no doubt thought gaudily...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: The Optimistic Decade, by Heather Abel {ends 8/1}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley “For years I was bitter. A constant state of rage because the world hadn’t gone the way I told it to, over and over, week after week, editorial after goddamn editorial!” He shouted this to the air around them, to the cows sleeping standing up,...

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Book Review: Girl Unknown, by Karen Perry

Guest review by: Becki Bayley It was late that night when Zoe came home. I was sitting at the writing desk in the living room, darkness pressing up against the window, the only light thrown by the small anglepoise lamp onto my notes spread in front of me. The rest of the household...

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