Absolutely great! I'm intrigued to see how Mead makes that ending work though... Looking forward to the next one!

I picked Lab Girl up from my library when I saw it on the new releases shelf, after reading an NPR article about it. Hope Jahren sounded like just the person whose memoirs I would want to read, based on the article and the book blurb. I was so, so right.

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The Secret Language of Stones is the second book in the Daughters of La Lune series, but you can read it on its own without feeling like you don’t understand the book. I haven’t read the first book in the series, and I only felt like I could have used a little more background on the family magic a few times. It didn’t hurt that I hadn’t read it, but it would add some nice extra information to the way their magic works.

It flew by as I was reading it. I liked the ideas behind it, but this novel had so many subplots going on – Opaline’s powers, Jean Luc’s writing, dealing with the Orloff family problems, the romance, Russian politics, etc. I think you get the picture.With so much going on, there really wasn’t enough time to really settle in and figure out what the main plotline was until the end.

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Witchcraft and early colonial America have always been some of my favorite topics for book, have been since I was in elementary school and probably will be until the day I die. If there was ever a way to travel back to a particular period in time and place on earth, colonial America would be it for me.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond has always been one of my favorite books. I read it for the first time in third or fourth grade, and I accidentally booknapped its paperbacked self from my classroom. It became my own once I realized that it would be far too embarrassing to go back ten years later, and say, “Oh, I accidentally took this when I was in your class, but here it is back! I’m really sorry, bye!” Not to mention the front cover had begun to fall off, as it is a fairly old book. Since then, the back cover has come off, and the spine is looking pretty sad.

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I first heard about Schwartz’s project when news reports first came out with the heart breaking images of what her students’ had written. It inspired me to learn more about my college’s local school system, and to write about it for my final journalism project at WCU. You can read it here, if you want to. The results that I found in Jackson County, North Carolina were similar to what Schwartz found in Colorado, so when I saw this as an ARC on Netgalley, I knew that I had to read it.

"Every child deserves an excellent education. Every child deserves to feel cared about and heard."

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I received a digital ARC of this from Netgalley and Ballentine Books in exchange for an honest review of it,.

Emily Giffin is a New York Times Best Selling Author who usually writes about hard romantic topics in a sensitive way. I enjoyed Something Borrowed and Something Blue, so when I saw this on Netgalley, I knew that I had to request First Comes Love. I didn’t love it as much as I loved the previous two, partially because I didn’t really like the sisters that were our main characters.

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