Dona's Book Blog

Thank you to the author Olivia Worley, and publishers Wednesday Books, for an advance copy of PEOPLE TO FOLLOW. Thank you also to NetGalley for the widget. All views are mine. Three (or more) things I loved: 1. The details are really doing it for me and possibly even glue this story together. 2. Elody is a very interesting piece of character work! ( But that linguistic quirk ("Babe!") of hers becomes annoying bordering on rage-inducing.) Three (or less) things I didn't love: This section isn't only for criticisms. It's merely for items that I felt something for other than "love" or some interpretation thereof. 1. I don't really believe the story parameters; even the producer in the book says how unbelievable and unprofessional it is that producers would leave all these people alone on this island. And yet, the story proceeds with those parameters. 2. There are so many different perspectives,  and with the exception of Elody...

Thank you to the author T Kingfisher, publishers Tor Books, and NetGalley for an advance audio copy of ᴛʜᴏʀɴʜᴇᴅɢᴇ. All views are mine. Three (or more) things I loved: 1. I connected to the idea of "The Greenteeth," magical folk who are both skilled and queer, who keep themselves to themselves and according to their own and not that of the "civilized world." 2. I love characters that have a hard time. Antiheros and unlikeable characters are the best. But I have speciaI love for underdogs. Both of the main characters in the book, the main character, Toadling, and her "knight" figure, are hard luck babies. Toadling...well, she's named Toadling, so that's a start. And her knight is a hapless, unsuccessful, third in line prince with very little confidence. They help each other throughout the book, and grow equally (despite what this means for cgaracter diversity). 3. This story includes some beautiful and important themes, like even outsider...

I found ANSWERS IN THE PAGES by David Levithan on the Libby app. Check for your local library on the app and read great books for free!📚 Thank you also to my Goodreads friend, Karen, for recommending this great book💜 Based on the amount of nuance and genuine empathy I found in this book, I may not have guessed at first that it was written for kids, but it is a middlegrade novel. I decided to listen to the audiobook of this short novel, and this was a perfect form for this book, whose premise winds up introducing significant stakes. Any reader may want to, as I did thanks in part to the audiobook, binge this book and finish it all at once. Also worth noting, the talented cast of narrators brings this book to life. In this story, a community reacts to one of the books assigned to its middlegrade children, based purely on its final line: At that moment, Rick knew how deeply he loved Oliver, and Oliver knew how deeply he loved Rick, and the understanding of this moment would ...