"Young Adult Literature" Blogs & Blog Posts

“When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the li...

“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.” - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (This review might contain spoilers.) I finally got around to ticking o...

“But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.” - Something Borrowed, Emily Giffin I had second tho...

“Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it’s because we’re too wrapped up in our own problems.” - Let it Snow, Lauren Myracle I picked this up at the bookstore a few weeks ago, hoping to receive a love story similar...

“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.” - Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John...

Yes, a book wish list, as if the 2012 Book List wasn’t enough. (Speaking of which, I am doing such a bad job with that list. I keep squeezing in books not on the list! And yet here I am, with another book list. Anyway.) No, this doesn’t d...

“Knowing a person isn’t like knowing a string of facts. It’s more like…a feeling.” - The Wedding Girl, Madeleine Wickham  Check out my read during my trips to Cebu and Bohol: The Wedding Girl by Madeleine Wickham, who write...