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Beyond Belief

Maybe we all remember someone telling us all good things must come to an end. These words haunted me all throughout my reading of Aaron...

Is the Grass Always Greener?

Pete Hautman’s newest young adult novel, Eden West, places the reader within the borders of Nodd, a place where many have gathered to...

More Than Just a Whisper

I was fortunate enough to read The Whisper, Aaron Starmer's sequel to The Riverman, back in January. At residency, I was given the ARC...

When I Left Atocha Station

When I left Ben Lerner's Atocha Station behind, I didn't know how much I'd miss the words embedded along those railroad tracks. Reading...

Just Another Drop In the Ocean

Yesterday I briefly touched on my views of book banning, but figured I'd wait and do an entire post about this controversial topic today....

2013's Most Most Memorable Books

Below are the thirteen most memorable books I read in 2013, in no particular order of course. There are still many more on my to read...

To Read or Not to Read?

For the past week, I've fallen into a rather Shakespearean kind of debate, to read or not to read? I think there comes a time in every...

A Note From the Author

Dear Reader, Here is the story of this story as chronologically factual as I can remember. The Beginning—So almost three years ago I was...