If you dream a fiction and wake up with that fiction in your hands, it becomes fact. And for Maggie Steifvater’s Call Down the Hawk, such a sentiment rings especially true for her protagonists, who dw…
Book Review: The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
As a Chinese girl in the South, Jo Kuan has experienced a great deal of injustices: getting fired from jobs without reason; struggling to find work; sitting in the back rows of the streetcar; and most…
Book Review: Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
Much like how her protagonist spins the dawn, Elizabeth Lim spins an equally enchanting tale in her magical debut. Aptly described as a cross between Mulan and Project Runway, Spin the Dawn marries ma…
Book Review: Breaking Bailey by Anonymous
A gripping addition to the Anonymous Diaries, Breaking Bailey highlights the heartrending realities of addiction and the repercussions of getting mixed up with the wrong people. After her mother’s dea…
Book Review: The Beholder by Anna Bright
In Anna Bright’s The Beholder, “once upon a time begins on nights like tonight,” nights of music and revelry and hopeful expectation. But for Selah, those fairy tale notions of happily ever after come…
Book Tour: ‘Populatti’ by Jackie Nastri Bardenwerper
Book Synopsis: Getting in is hard. Staying in is harder… Joining social network Populatti.com let sixteen-year-old Livi Stanley trade her awkward middle school past for the social life of her dr…
How the Adapted Screenplay Saved The Hunger Games (Part I of II)
When I think about movies that are, I believe, better than the books they are adapted from, for the most part these movies are adaptations of Young Adult novels (also, The Lord of the Rings). I’m not …