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Top Ten: Young Adult Books

January 11, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Being a young adult is to inhabit a complex and confusing world. When books address this phase of life beautifully, they can be breathtaking. Here are my top ten YA books of 2019. Stargirl Writer: Jerry SpinelliPublisher: Laurel Leaf Thinking about Stargirl makes me smile, for the character of Stargirl is impossibly sweet, impossibly wonderful. […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Hell and High Water, No. 9 on the Shade Card, One, Pig Heart Boy, Running Girl, Set in Stone, Stargirl, The Lies We Tell, Top Ten, Touching Spirit Bear, Wolf Cry, Young Adult

The Lies We Tell

February 9, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I finished reading The Lies We Tell last night. I woke up this morning, still disturbed. For a moment, I just had a vague sense of unease that I could not place, but a few seconds later, I knew I was still in another place, in another character. I was still Irfan Ahmed. I read Talking of Muskaan two years […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Himanjali Sankar, reading, review, The Lies We Tell