MY ALMOST FLAWLESS TOKYO DREAM LIFE by RACHEL COHN (2019) A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Welcome to 2019, everyone! If you’re anything like me, you’re more than glad that 2018 is over and have welcomed 2019 with open arms. With the new year comes new book reviews, and this week’s…
A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN I’m cheating again, and by cheating, I mean I’m reviewing a book that isn’t necessarily new, but new to us here at the library. Wotakoi by Fujita is a manga series following the every day lives of four friends living and working in Japan. What…
IT’S NOT LIKE IT’S A SECRET by MISA SUGIURA A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN It’s NotLike It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura is one of those books I knew I wanted to read when it came out in April of this year, but never got around to reading until recently.…
WHAT IF IT’S US by BECKY ALBERTALLI AND ADAM SILVERA A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN I’ve been reading YA books since I was twelve. The first proper YA book I remember reading and loving is Twilight. I was obsessed with it, of course, and frantically devoured every vampire book I…
CARAVAL by STEPHANIE GARBER A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN I first heard of Caraval from the gaggle of creators I watch on YouTube. (Side note: If you didn’t already know, YouTube has a bustling community in which users talk about nothing but books. We call it BookTube. It’s wonderful.) It…
THAT BLUE SKY FEELING 1 by OKURA A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN That Blue Sky Feeling is a brand-new manga series by writer Okura. The characters and plot of the story once appeared online but have since been bound in graphic novel format by Viz, a prominent manga publisher both…
THIS DARKNESS MINE by Mindy McGinnis (2017) A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Last year, when This Darkness Mine by Mindy McGinnis was released, it was all the rage in my bookish internet circles. People I’m subscribed to on YouTube were talking about it, excited that Mindy had a new book…
THE DARK DESCENT OF ELIZABETH FRANKENSTEIN by KIERSTEN WHITE (2018) A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN It’s October, everyone! My favorite month of the year is finally here, and to kick off the spookiness, I decided to read a spooky book. The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White is…
On Monday, October 8th, (weather permitting), and while the libraries are closed for Columbus Day, the parking lots of Argenta Library and Oreana Library will be repaired and sealcoated.
GRACE AND THE FEVER by ZAN ROMANOFF (2017) A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Grace and the Fever by Zan Romanoff is a coming-of-age tale that could only have been written in the 2010s. Sure, you could have written this book about, say, The Beatles, but it would lack the distinctly…