Tag: Loved It

Jade City

Jade City--a digital cover for the book by Fonda Lee. It shows greenish, leafy embellishments on a dark background. Near the bottom, a button invites the reader to "continue."

I’ve been meaning to read Jade City for a while, and I don’t know what took me so long. Once I finally got into it, I found this book totally […]

Mazie

Cover of Mazie by Melanie Crowder, which shows a girl in front of the front of a theater, with her name in lights (and the author's on the board where they'd usually name the featured show.)

Mazie, the newest book by Melanie Crowder, is a great story about one young woman’s journey toward Broadway. As a small town girl from Nebraska, Mazie doesn’t know any professional […]

Flora & Ulysses

The cover of Kate DiCamillo's Flora & Ulysses, surrounded by greenery, and framed with a typewriter, a vacuum cleaner, a pair of sunglasses, a teacup, a donut, and a necktie.

If you need a fun, quick read that’s delightfully magical and laugh-out-loud funny, Flora & Ulysses is a great pick. Flora is a wonderful character. Smart and cynical, she nonetheless […]

The Kingdom of Back

Cover of Marie Lu's The Kingdom of Back -- a light blue stylized tree on a blue background.

Marie Lu’s The Kingdom of Back surprises with its mix of fantasy and historical fiction. I expected a fantasy, but at first, got nothing but a tale of Mozart’s forgotten […]