libscote's Reviews (6.4k)

This is a really good series. I hope there's another one because it felt like there was a little cliffhanger for one of the characters and I need to know what happened!

This was a really good mystery about a family that seems to be suffering under some kind of magical curse. I liked learning about Garnet and her family's take on magic (different types of earth magic with family lines having a specific focus.) I was a little confused by part of the ending, but overall this is a book you could hand to many children and they would enjoy it. 

There were a few parts where I was confused and I realized those must have been parts of the podcast that were hard to translate into pictures. Overall I still really enjoy this series and I can't believe the next installment might be the last.

I think this is really good as a political explainer, but I wish there was a bit more about what to do with the information. I felt so downtrodden by the end (although I am reading this in the runup to the 2024 election). 

A primer on plants.

A basic primer on prairies.

Another fast-paced awesome adventure from April Henry.

I'm not a huge horror person, so you might be surprised that I searched this book out. I am, however, a big "discover woman who was overlooked by history/written out of history by men" person, and this book fits right up my alley. I also can be a bit of a "what was the process of doing this? the process is interesting!" person, which this book also hits. You find out what O'Meara was able to discover about Milicent Patrick and where the questions we'll never be able to answer are. I found this a very enjoyable nonfiction read. 

I don't think I would have read this except it was a book club pick. I'm not sure it's my favorite type of story (I found it started slow) but the themes of great men justifying their lives and then discovering the truth behind it is always interesting. 

Taina's family seems to be falling apart at the seams: her older brother has gone to live with her estranged father after a fight, her mother is working all the time, and her grandmother has dementia. Just before her grandmother's death, she leaves Taina with objects that have been in their family for generations, objects that will help them when their time of need is the greatest. How will Taina know that? What did her grandmother mean? I did appreciate this book's look at the history of the island most of us know as Puerto Rico. I wasn't sure where the title came from in the book, and I thought it took a little while to get up to speed.