"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
Wake Now in the Fire is about book banning and student protests, sensitive subjects on the right. While the book itself hasn’t been banned or challenged, it certainly could be, and I expect that somehow, somewhere, forces of darkness are mobilizing against it. It feels like a banned book, it looks like a banned book, and it reads like a banned book. Therefore I review it as such.
I saw the most recent “top ten” (actually eleven) list of challenged and targeted books in America and realized the title in the number one position, Patricia McCormick’s Sold, was one I’d not heard of before. Since my library had a copy, I decided to read and review it.
Six short book reviews: fantasy, mystery, thriller, science fiction, horror.
Nineteen Minutes is a young adult novel about a school shooting, the events leading up to it, and its aftermath.