Bazan Librarians Review...

This is an old time favorite young adult novel.  I read this a long time ago when it came out and instantly fell in love with the story.  I hadn't read a novel so unique for teens.  Every Day is about a being that wakes up as a different person each day since it can remember. The story is told through A, the teenager who's soul, for lack of better phrasing, inhabits different bodies every day. A has gotten accustomed to this lifestyle.  Over the years, A realizes that it is best to wake up as that being and live a life that does not interfere with that person's life. Things change on the morning he wakes up as a teenage boy named Justin.  He follows a typical morning Justin would have normally followed and instantly falls hard for Justin's girlfriend Rhiannon. The first chapter sets the stage for what to expect having your main character hop from body to body.  The rules are set and the reader is ready to embrace the rest. The book follows A desperate...

At the end of March, our Bad Girls Book Club was supposed to meet and discuss Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert. Due to the crisis, our library, like many are closed to the public and our events were canceled. I’m lucky to be friends with members of our book group outside of work and because of that our book club is still going! We are now meeting online. Recently we gathered to talk about Get a Life, Chloe Brown, FINALLY! and I am so glad that the group liked it, myself included. *Minor Spoilers* It was a really great read and funny.  It brought some laughter and sexiness into the lives of the readers which is totally needed and appreciated during this time. The heroine is Chloe Brown, yes that Chloe Brown from the title who nearly gets hit by a car that crashes into a building. She was feet away from it when it happened and was not injured. If time had not on her side, she could have been hit. This changes her perspective on things. Miss. Chloe is not satisfied with ...

My  quarantine  reading adventure continues.  The young adult novel  Geekerella  by  Ashley Poston   is a modern- nerd culture  spin o f  the old fairy t ale  Cinderella (in case you didn’t  get  it).  I thoroughly enjoyed this book  and personally, I’m a huge fan of  retellings  in addition to being a huge romance  lover .  In this retelling, we meet  Elle  Wittimer ,  and in her universe, she eats and breath e s the world of  Starfield,   a sci-fi television show that she grew up watching with her father.    Just like in Cinderella,  Ella’s  father is no longer alive and she lives in her parent's home  with a super wicked step-mother ,   and twin step-sisters  who  b ully  her  and  emotionally abuse he r . Elle is outcasted  from  her family  at home  and in life  amongst her pee...

Recently I read Fat by author Sara Wylde which is the first of the Labels series. Claire is a business owner of a clothing line called Chubbalicious (a plus size clothing line). Claire is independent and lives with her best friend Kieran, a male entertainer at the hottest club in town and who goes by the name Finn McCool. The story starts off with the heroine Claire Howard being told, “You’re pretty, for a fat girl” by a coworker of Kieran’s. This scene sets the reader up for the emotional adventure, and a great read for those that can relate to Claire's story and know what it’s like to be fat. Claire, is confident and doesn't care what others think of her. Since we are in Claire’s POV and inner dialog, we get a closer look at the struggle she has had growing up being fat and how that has followed her through adulthood. If there is one thing Claire does not struggle with, it’s getting the attention of men, including that of her roommate and best friend Kieran and his cowo...

One of my favorite young adult novels is Thanks for the Trouble by Tommy Wallach.  I came across this book when I was working at McCreless Library Branch a few years back.   I remembered receiving the book and shelving it in the New Book shelf, away from my Young Adult section.  I was in need of wanting a young adult romance and found it.   I read the back summary of the book and decided to take it home to read.  It sat on my coffee table that week until I picked up for reading that Friday afternoon. The book tells the story of a teenage boy named Parker Sante who experienced a traumatic car accident resulting in his father's death, and the spawn of his new form of communication...silence. After the accident, Parker spends most of his time downtown San Francisco in the Palace Hotel, where he people watches and picks pockets.  The story starts with Parker introducing himself (writing about himself) and letting the reader know that he will share th...