Review: You Lucky Dog by Julia London

Title: You Lucky Dog Author: Julia London ★★ Summary: Carly Kennedy's life is in a spiral. She's drowning in work, her divorced parents are going through their midlife crises, and her sister somehow convinced her to foster a depressed basset hound. When she discovers that the dog walker has accidentally switched out Baxter for a …

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Review: We Are Lost and Found by Helene Dunbar

Title: We Are Lost and Found Author: Helene Dunbar ★★★ Summary: Michael is content to live in the shadow of his best friends, James and Becky, and his older brother, Connor, who was kicked out of the house for being gay. To pass the time before graduation, Michael hangs out at The Echo where he …

Review: What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera

Title: What If It's Us Author: Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera ★★★ Summary: Arthur is in New York for the summer, hoping that the universe will deliver a show-stopping romance worthy of a Broadway play. Ben, on the other hand, just wants the universe to mind its business; being witness to a proposal while in line …

Review: On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Title: On a Sunbeam Author: Tillie Walden ★★ Summary: Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken structures, painstakingly putting the past together. Two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love, only to learn the pain of loss. With two interwoven timelines and stunning art, On a Sunbeam …

Review: You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian

Title: You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories Author: Kristen Roupenian ★★ Summary: You Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Spanning a range of genres and topics from the mundane to the murderous …

Review: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Title: Dark MatterAuthor: Blake CrouchRating: ★★½Summary: After Jason Dessen is kidnapped and knocked unconscious, he wakes up strapped to a gurney and surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Everything is eerily familiar—except not. His wife is not his wife, his son was never born, and he's a celebrated scientific genius instead of a college physics …

Review: Dead Girls by Alice Bolin

Title: Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American ObsessionAuthor: Alice BolinRating: ★★Summary: In this poignant collection, Alice Bolin examines the widespread obsession with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised, and whose bodies (dead or alive) are used as props to bolster men's stories -- investigating the implications of our cultural fixations and her own role …