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The Stack: March 2015
Welp. We are moved in. ...living out of boxes... but we are moved in!It was a hectic, overwhelming time and I'm proud of the amount of reading I managed to accomplish during all of that. Now that we...
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Mortal Danger
by: Ann AguirreEdie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four months ago, she couldn't imagine being strong...
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Red Queen
by: Victoria AveyardMare Barrow's world is divided by blood-- those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are lowly Reds, destined to serve the Silver elite whose supernatural abilities...
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Canary
by: Duane SwierczynskiIt's dangerous enough when an ordinary college girl turns confidential informant. Even more dangerous when she's smarter than the killer, kingpins, and cops who control her.Honors...
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Alas, Babylon
by: Pat Frank"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of...
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The Stack: April 2015
This was a good month of reading. I'm happy that with all the work we're doing around the house I've not lost the will to find time to read {I hear that's possible. But I don't know how I couldn't read...
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A Monster Calls
by: Patrick NessThe monster showed up after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting, the one from the nightmare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her...
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Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You
by: Todd Hasak-LowyDarren hasn't had an easy year. There was his parents' divorce, which just so happened to come at the same time his older brother, Nate, left for college and his longtime best friend...
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The Demon King
by: Cinda Williams ChimaTimes are hard in the mountain city of Fellsmarch. Reformed thief Han Alister will do almost anything to eke out a living got his family. the only thing of value he has is...
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The Stack: May 2015
I seem to have had some kind of color theme happening this month. Not intentional. But I like it. Anyway, as of today, I am expected to meet baby girl in 17 days. I have about 4 books I want to finish...
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Room
by: Emma DonoghueTo five-year-old Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where Jack...
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The Stack: June 2015
So... this month flew by. {I guess that's to be expected when you have a baby}. I did, however, manage to read a fair share of books this month, and even posted a review! I was very close to posting...
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The Killing Woods
by: Lucy ChristopherAshlee Parker is dead, and Emily Shepherd's dad is accused of the crime. A former soldier suffering from PTSD, he emerges from the woods carrying the girl's broken body. "Gone," he...
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The Fire Sermon
by: Francesca HaigFour hundred years after a nuclear apocalypse, the Alphas have inherited the earth--or what's left of it. All humans are born in pairs, the deformed Omegas getting split from their...
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
by: Charles YuNational Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father......
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How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned From Reading Too Much
by: Samantha EllisWhile debating literature's greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation--her whole life, she's been trying to be Cathy Earnshaw...
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The Stack: July 2015
I'm surprised by how many books I read this month, given the fact that I've been rather occupied caring for my new baby all day. But I guess when I read during practically every feeding {every 2-3...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by: Junot DiazOscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J. r. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But Oscar may...
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Tangled Webs
by: Lee BrossLady A is the most notorious blackmailer in the city. With just a mask and a gown to disguise her, she sweeps into lavish balls and exclusive events to collect the most valuable currency...
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Bird Box
by: Josh MalermanSomething is out there... Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.Five years...
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You're Never Weird on the Internet {Almost}
by: Felicia DayFrom online entertainment pioneer, actress, and "queen of the geeks" Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) is a funny, quirky, and inspiring memoir about her unusual...
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The Mysterious Benedict Society
by: Trenton Lee Stewart"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?"When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending...
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The Glass Sentence
by: S.E. GroveIt's 1891. Almost a century ago, the Great Disruption threw all of the continents into different time periods, from pre-history to the far future. It remade the world. Explorers took...
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The Stack: August 2015
I read a good amount of books this month, and I still don't know how it happened. It seemed like a long month, yet it flew by! I guess because I'm only a week or so away from the end of my maternity...
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Shadow and Bone
by: Leigh BardugoAlina Starkov doesn't expect much from life. Orphaned by the Border Wars, the one thing she could rely on was her best friend and fellow refugee, Mal. And lately not even that seems...
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