Tag: Keeper

Boxers & Saints

The two volumes of Boxers & Saints sit side by side, so that the faces of the two protagonists merge into one.

As you can probably see from the picture, Boxers & Saints is a graphic novel. (Really, two graphic novels.) Now, I’m not usually a graphic novel person, but every so […]

Cinder

A paperback copy of Cinder rests on a red poster tube. On the cover, a woman's leg in a red pump has mechanical parts showing through the skin.

My fourteen-year old has been begging me to read this one for at least a year now–and it’s spectacular. I love the world-building. Everything from Cinder’s cyborg parts to her […]

The Book Thief

A paperback copy of The Book Thief. On the cover a set of dice sits on a table.

Wow. Sometimes I read a book, and it’s so good, that I’m a bit in awe. This one is like that. I didn’t know what to think, at first, of […]

The Hate U Give

The cover of The Hate U Give sits above swirling police car lights. On the cover, the main character, Starr, who is black, holds a sign, much as one would hold a protest sign, but her sign gives the name of the book.

Like all my favorite stories, Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give introduced me to a whole new world. Except, however foreign it feels to me, Starr’s world exists. It’s in […]