Reading Time: 6 minutes In Elise Bryant’s Happily Ever Afters, Tessa Johnson and her family are new residents of a California town. Tessa is now attending a new school for gifted teens. But, she goes to the school with a mystery as her mother has applied on her behalf and selected writing samples from her work, much to Tessa’s…
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Reading Time: 2 minutes I read Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close a few years ago and it moved me tremendously. So, when I saw the movie on sale for 5 bucks (!!!), I picked it up, certain of its awesomeness. In particular, I thought of its mystery aspects and its exploration of human connections and love. The story offers a much…
BR: Courage and Character in Since You’ve Been Gone
Reading Time: 2 minutes When I approached Since You’ve Been Gone, I slacked and hesitated. Then, one night, I was shaking and sweating profusely. I couldn’t sleep and the world felt unbearably dark, so, I pulled out the cheery cover of Emily and Sloane’s story. I begin and I don’t stop till I am done with the book. In…
BR: Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here
Reading Time: 3 minutes Part of having an online presence is this weird isolation from real life, whatever that is. I remember growing up with the Harry Potter fandom, reading fanfiction, and not really being in tune with who was popular in school, or crushes, or friendships. I was kind of in my own bubble hovering maddeningly in a…
BR: Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens’ Agenda
Reading Time: 2 minutes Being stuck and sad makes reading, sleeping, eating, drinking, praying difficult. Everything is hard then. BUT, every once in a while, you get a ray of light out of nowhere. This ray for me was in Simon and Blue’s relationship. I have to admit that it took me a while to buckle down and read…
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