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Top Ten: Young Adult Books in 2018

January 8, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

There’s so much happening in the world of Young Adult books! Some people may classify a few of these books as MG rather than YA, but again, I put forth the usual disclaimer – associating an age with a reading level is impossible. Many of these books are crucial – they deal with ideas and […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: boy 87, Daddy Come Lately, Elizabeth Laird, Fire Colour One, how not to disappear, Invisible People, Just Henry, Magic Flutes, reading, Red Sky in the Morning, review, The Lie Tree, The Thing about Jellyfish, When She Went Away

Boy 87

October 21, 2018 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Boy 87 came frighteningly close to becoming too much for me as a reader. As I read on, there was one stage where I was filled with a sickening sense of dread. I remembered Chalkline, which I could not finish reading because it was so well told that the story was overwhelmingly traumatic for me – more […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: boy 87, Ele Fountain, reading, review