Suzanne Collins The news that Suzanne Collins was writing a prequel book to the Hunger Games series unearthed all these memories of myself as a young reader completely enamored with the series that I had forgotten. While in middle school, I had a huge Hunger Games obsession -- I'm talking dressing up as tributes and… Continue reading The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Month: May 2020
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas Think Beauty and the Beast, but darker and with more faeries. After Feyre, a human girl, kills a faerie disguised as a wolf she finds herself faced with brutal consequences for the crime she committed, to be served in the faerie land of Prythian. Dragged from her home by a vengeful and… Continue reading A Court of Thorns and Roses
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson Unless you have a direct connection to the justice system, I don't think it is entirely possible to understand just how unfair and corrupt it can be. Sure, there are some really great and positive things to come from it sometimes, but there are also so many terrible injustices that come from a… Continue reading Just Mercy