Hello! The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater is one of my favorite YA books. With beautiful prose, a fantastic setting, and realistic characters, it stands out from regular YA books. During a recent reread, I tried super hard to figure out why this book works so well, and why so many readers love it. And…
Month: November 2020
The Rivers Lead Home (Blog Tour)
Hello! Today, I had the fun of participating in the blog tour for the release of Emily Hayse’s new novel, The Rivers Lead Home. (Can we just take a second to admire how gosh darn beautiful that cover is?!) “You see, Maki, that’s the thing about the rivers. They’re like the blood-lines in your hands…….
Being Correctly Incorrect With Grammar (A Ramble)
Hello! Grammar is a subject in school that everyone seems to hate. I’ve witnessed a surprising amount of frustration over it. And I can understand because honestly, I hate grammar too. But I also like it. I don’t enjoy learning about what parts of a sentence are the independent-dependant-clause, or which word is the antecedent,…