This was cute. Long have I wanted to see more of Elsa actually trying to govern her kingdom; Disney needs to do more, but this was a start. My daughter was just delighted for a new adventure with all her favorite characters, and by the idea of flangendorfers.

Really enjoyed this. Many of Greenberg's preoccupations mirror my own, and she writes them really well. Sometimes the ending to a particular piece (poem/mini-essay/whatever) felt a little flat, but overall this was clever and really resonated.

Graphic novel. Apparently a Wonder Woman reboot, which is fine by me since I've never read any Wonder Woman before. But this had a little too much blood for me.

I enjoyed this so much. I liked seeing events unfold from both the adults' and teens' perspectives; I liked the characters; I felt a lot of empathy for the adult characters feeling stuck and was pleased at the routes they found out of it. The only thing that didn't ring true was the resolution of the Zoe/Jane problem - they go on a date and things ( Read more... )

This volume was almost as adorable as the first, but I wasn't in love with the resolution of the weirdness, and most of the characters continue to blur together for me. Still fun to read.

Full title: Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person.

What a lot of fun this was!

Really enjoyed this. Didn't even catch that they're sonnets until coming onto Goodreads to post this (my library copy is a plain hardback with no blurbs on the back cover), but it makes sense as a form for this character and the way he sees the world. I'll be reading this again before it goes back to the library.

First two Jack and Annie books of the year:

Moonlight on the Magic Flute (Magic Tree House #41): In this adventure, Jack and Annie need to help Mozart, but they don't recognize him because he's an annoying little kid. Also, Jack bumbles around so badly that people assume he must be a trained clown. I don't know whether it's Wolfie's antics, Jack's ( Read more... )

Year 1: 2004
Year 2: 2005
Year 3: 2006
Year 4: 2007
Year 5: 2008
Year 6: 2009
Year 7: 2010
Year 8: 2011
Year 9: 2012
Year 10: 2013
Year 11: 2014
Year 12: 2015

( This year: 2016 )

Whitehead does a spot-on job of capturing the voice of this character Ben, a nerdy kid who doesn't quite fit in to any of his various worlds. The book is really funny, witty, well-written. In addition to capturing Benji's story as he navigates this pivotal summer, Whitehead also captures the feel of the African American Sag Harbor community: the ( Read more... )