Desperately Seeking Bookworm

Damn you YA and your life lessons! For a 28 year old to be able to 100% relate to the 15 year old in this book is kinda sad, but then again that's probably the point. I love me some good YA and this was decent, it had that inevitable life lesson in it, along with some pretty heavy issues. There are two sides to every story. It’s friends-at-first-sight for Jessie and Annie, proving the old adage that opposites attract. Shy, anxious Jessie would give anything to have Annie’s beauty and confidence. And Annie thinks Jessie has the perfect life, with her close-knit family and killer grades. They're BFFs…until suddenly they're not.  Told through alternating points of view, How It Ends is a wildly fast but deeply moving read about a friendship in crisis. Set against a tumultuous sophomore year of bullying, boys and backstabbing, the novel shows what can happen when friends choose assumptions and fear over each other. First off, let's look at that cover. Doesn't it...

This was the second book I read of the Summer, and it was pretty alright. I like that it was easy to read as YA is and as YA goes there was a good life lesson. No vampires or crazy mysteries here, just a well told story that was based off a real life case. In 2012 a real life incident at a high school came to the national spotlight as 2 star football players were charged and convicted of the rape of a classmate at a party. Additionally there were 4 adults who were charged with covering up the crime and the principal was charged with covering up an additional rape that took prior. It was a very awful case and I was quite sickened by it, but I don't want to go into too much detail because this isn't what the post is about. I just thought I would give some background on the case to set up this book. Short version is that this is setup like this case, but it takes place in Iowa instead of Ohio and features basketball instead of football. Kate Weston can piece together most of the...

Popsugar Ultimate Reading Challenge: A Popular Author's First Book A Book Set in High School A Banned Book I'll admit that I got sucked into the trend that was The Fault In Our Stars . I really did like the book and I thought the movie adaptation was pretty good. Since I loved that book, I was sure to love the rest of Green's work...yeah no. Earlier this year I read  Paper Towns, which was just eh. I wasn't impressed. Clearly I didn't learn from that because I decided to read Green's first YA novel Looking for Alaska , which checks off 3 of my Popsugar qualifications! Before.  Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Beca...