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“I Don’t Want To Get Over You”: More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

June 5, 2015 / 6 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“I Don’t Want To Get Over You”: More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

  More Happy Than Not Author: Adam Silvera (website | twitter) Publisher: Soho Teen Source/Format: eARC provided by publisher via Edelweiss (thank you!) Publication date: June 2, 2015 My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.  Buy It: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound | The Book Depository | Audible | iTunes | Google Books Part Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, part Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Adam Silvera’s extraordinary debut novel offers a unique confrontation of race, class and sexuality during one charged near-future summer in the Bronx. When it first gets announced, the […]

Review: Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

October 24, 2014 / 1 Comment / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Review: Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

Lies We Tell Ourselves Author: Robin Talley (website | twitter) Publisher: Harlequin Teen Source/Format: Rachel from Hello, Chelly gave me this ARC that she picked up at BEA14! (thanks, Rachel!) Publication date: September 30th 2014 My rating: 3 out of 5 stars Buy it:  Indigo.ca | Indiebound | B&N | The Book Depository | Amazon  In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever. Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An honors student at her old school, she is […]

Guest Review: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

August 22, 2013 / 4 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Guest Review: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

Hey, everyone! Today is a special day, because you’re getting a review from my husband, Evan! In case you don’t know the background…Evan is a very smart sci-fi, film, and comic book aficionado who usually reads literary stuff like Michael Chabon and Salman Rushdie. Recently, he read and reviewed Red Moon by Benjamin Percy for MYAL.  This time, he’s checking out a YA novel written by acclaimed British author David Mitchell – you might know him as “that guy who wrote Cloud Atlas.” Take it away, Evan (gifs courtesy of me again)! Black Swan Green Author: David Mitchell (website | facebook) Publisher: […]