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Now that I’m officially part of the Month9Books stable of authors, I’ll be sharing the covers and deals of books that I think might interest my audience. Genesis Girl is a sci-fi dystopian book for young adult to new adult readers. A quick note from the author: “The first time I saw the cover to Genesis Girl I got chills. Genesis …
This is part three of a series of rants inspired by this lovely meme: Maybe you’re bored with discussing school dress codes and sexism. Believe me, it was tedious to be confronted with it day in and day out when I worked for the school district. Why can’t the kids just follow the rules? Because …
Dear Teenager: Your Dress Code isn’t about Sexism – Part 2 Read More »
The dress code at your school isn’t about sexism. Enforcing those rules isn’t a form of discrimination. Click here to read my personal rebuttal to this piece of propaganda. Today, I’m going to address the girl whose school day was interrupted by a trip to the office. Dear Teenage Girl- I’m sorry you won’t be …
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Most of the time, I just blow off the millions of memes I see on Facebook, especially when they’re obviously nothing more than a soapbox. For some reason, this one stabbed deeper than others. Because enforcing a dress code has nothing to do with shaming or promoting misogyny. I worked in the public education system …
School Begins: So will this argument about dress code Read More »
In the interest of promoting independently published authors, I often agree to review new releases. In the case of The Vanished Knight by M. Gerrick, I agreed to review the first book in her series The War of Six Crowns in exchange for a free eBook copy. For those of you new to book publishing …
The Vanished Knight by M. Gerrick – 3.8 of 5 Stars Read More »
The Last Orphans is a Young Adult science fiction book with dystopian themes. This isn’t the first book by N.W. Harris I’ve read, which might be a recommendation of its own. I won this book from the publisher when it was first released in October 2014. It’s been sitting in my Kindle queue for many …
High expectations rule in my world. But do I have the right to hold others to the standard? Especially since I so often fall short? You know what I mean. We have ideals. Things are important to us – and other people should value them, too. Or should they? Rewind to my post about wedding …
I am a fan of young adult stories – but not straight romances. Especially not YA romance which is generally too much angst and drama and not enough story. Iris St. Clair makes me a liar with her phenomenal book Louder than Words. I’ll admit I picked up the book because it was at a …
On Monday, I gave a brief rundown of the first four books in Pittacus Lore’s series Lorien Legacies. If you love these stories, you know he has written novellas detailing the background of every member of the Garde. I have only read the account about Six, and it was enjoyable. You can find them here. The latest …
If you’ve followed my blog for much time at all, you know I’m not a big reader of science fiction. There are a few exceptions and one of them is the Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore. This started several years ago when I picked up I am Number Four at the Scholastic Book Fair at …