I spent the rest of the morning feeling as though I was trying to be in twenty places at once. Shadowing one person, let alone four, is an unexpectedly sweaty business.
Tag: YA
Book Review – A Blade So Black (L.L. McKinney)
Right tool for the right job in the right hands? Anything is possible.
Book Review – The Marrow Thieves (Cherie Dimaline)
I knew I'd never see my family if I were captured; we wouldn't be reunited at the school. I had to get down from this tree safely and keep moving. Mitch had sacrificed himself so I could live, so I had to live. It was the only thing left I could do for him.
Book Review – The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?
Book Review – Renegades (Marissa Meyer)
"If people wanted to stand up for themselves or protect their loved ones or do what they believe in their hearts is the right thing to do, then they would do it. If they wanted to be heroic, they would find ways to be heroic, even without supernatural powers."
I Won NaNoWriMo!
2018 was my second go at NaNoWriMo, and my first win (to win, you have to make the 50,000 word count by November 30th, and validate the text through the nanwrimo website). Gotta say – it feels pretty good.
Book Review: Akata Witch (Nnedi Okorafor)
Akata Witch (Nnedi Okorafor) has been affectionately dubbed the "Nigerian Harry Potter." Frankly, it's so much more.
Book Tag – Books that Made Your Childhood
Books! And childhood nostalgia!
Book Tag – Halloween
Books!... And HALLOWEEN
A Halloween Story (I Wrote as a Kid!)
A dark, but hilarious, story that I wrote as a 10-yr old kid - Trick-or-treating, kidnapping, and a big rescue (kind of...) Happy Halloween!