I was absolutely over the moon when I got my hands on a copy of The Manual of Aeronautics a sort of companion book to Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan series with a plethora of utterly brilliant art from the hand of the wonderful Keith Thompson whose art brought much of the story to life. I'm a huge fan of…
YA Releases on My TBR [July 2018 Part 3]
Hello everyone! It's Wednesday and I've got a bunch of new books that have found their way onto my TBR recently, all of which I'm incredibly excited to share with you guys. Every single one of these books was an instant add; not one of them left me feeling hesitant about adding them nor did…
An Affair of Poisons [Addie Thorley]; 2019 YA Releases
I was not expecting to be even the slightest bit interested in An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley. And, to be fair, that cover really doesn't do a great job of selling this book. Sure, it's nice to look at, a little bit. But for me, at least, it looks like the cover of…
A 2019 YA Releases Update
So, in the past I've used my 2019 YA Releases series to basically just offer up a few thoughts of mine on an upcoming young adult novel for this year--though I'm behind now as there are more newly published books than there are days in the year--and, after writing a post scheduled for next month…
Tigeropolis: Caught in the Trap [R. D. Dikstra]
I love illustrated chapter books and so it's no surprise, really, that I picked up Tigeropolis: Caught in the Trap by R. D. Dikstra, a very cute book about a family of tigers who have developed their brains to evolve and eventually run their own zoo, though the humans of course falsely believe that they are the…