"...there's a checked-out, drugged sort of look we get when on our phones that's different from the look we get when reading a book, or even just staring into space. I get that look, too, and when I catch my own reflection, it gives me a chill. It's like Gollum's face just before he drops his Precious in the water."

Gorgeous illustrations that bring on the chills, and stories creepy enough that they spooked my mind at bedtime. Loved it.

1. This book is put in stores now, but I got it as an ARC. An ARC! I have access to ARCs now!! I love my job.
2. All the heart-eyed emojis for this book. All of them. My heart. I cried more than once and grinned big, cheesy grins. I felt like someone got into teenage (and ok, even older) Courtney's head and put it all on the page. And discussed frankly all the things I found so difficult to discuss then.

"...When we finish, Reid says, 'I think there are some swaddling blankets, too.'
I pick one up, reading the label. 'Organic hemp.'
'Yes.'
'Really?' I look at him.
He laughs. 'Really.'
So, I guess there are parents who like to roll their babies up like blunts."

"...I don't think she gets it. There's a reason I've had twenty-six crushes and no boyfriends. I don't entirely understand how *anyone* gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. You have to crush on the exact right person at the exact right moment. And they have to like you back. A perfect alignment of feelings and circumstances. It's almost unfathomable that it happens as often as it does."

"Cassie's soapbox: the fact that I've had twenty-six crushes and exactly zero kisses. Apparently, it's because I need to woman up. If I like a guy, I'm supposed to tell him. Maybe in Cassie's world, you can do that and have it end in making out. But I'm not so sure it works that way for fat girls."

I loved the magic of this book, the struggle and love between the sisters, and the discussion of art and what it means to create. Though some characters and moments seemed muted, the overall magic of the book made up for it. Loved it.

I was so surprised to come scrips this at work last night. It actually is, yes, an explanation of general relativity broken down into basic terms. To be honest, even as an adult I have to stop and think about it to "get" it, but I love that this exists and know some parents who could make great use of it.

I don't want to hate on this book, because a lot of my book club members really enjoyed it, and I probably would have finished it if I had more reading time. As it stands, my me-and-my-books time is extremely limited, and I had another book started that I am *really* into. As a result, after the book club for which I was reading this met, I decided it would be okay to let it go unfinished.

Luke Danes keeps my place.

A cute romance, epecially with the theatre element. At first, I really didn't think I would like the male love interest, but he grew on me and I came to love the relationship between the protagonists.

I wanted a raw, unfiltered look into the mind of someone who was seduced into a cult. Instead, the mood is slow and dreamy and the reader is kept at a remove, as if watching events unfold through snow or the drug haze in which the characters are wrapped. Cline has a lot to say about loneliness and the ways in which women are perceived and treated. A good book, just not my particular favorite style.

"It took sustained, constant living to ward off decay."

"...That was part of being a girl-you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch.The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you."

"Or maybe that‘s just the resentment, echoing inside me—how mad I get every time I‘m rewarded for being the person people want and not the person I am."

I liked this one a lot, I think because of how much I identified with the main character This book has characters that are seriously messed up emotionally, with no absolutley no idea how to handle it or where to get help. However, it develops and fleshes them out without becoming an issue book.

Last week I led my local bookstore's reading of Fox in Socks in honor of Dr. Suess' birthday and Read Across America. Here I am decked out in my Suessy finest!

"Living alone was frightening in that way. No one to police the spill of yourself, the ways you betrayed your primitive desires. Like a cocoon built around you, made of your own naked proclivities and never tidied into the patterns of actual human life."

The protagonist could be frustrating at times, but she had a good heart. It was interesting to read a book in which a character says and does some truly insensitive things because she simply has no other idea what to do or say. This is also a very mature YA, dealing very frankly with sex and masturbation. Grief is a major theme, but for all that it is not terribly emotional. I enjoyed it.

When the book you're reading shares your fandom. :)