Anna Tschetter

God I loved this. Renata recommended it to me because I keep reading books about being sad in space or sad about space - looking at you, Challenger by Adam Higginbotham. Instead, she suggested, why not read something funny and heartwarming about dicks and Pokémon and Dragon Ball and dads and daughter and love and love and love.

Much better, I think.

I LOVED this! I think that Dickey thesis that paranoia and fear of secret societies/cabals being baked into the American consciousness makes a lot of sense. Reading it made me simultaneously worried and hopeful for the future which I suppose is about as best as I can get.

I could recommend anyone interested in American history, moral panics, or who feels dismay about the MAGA-ification of politics to read this.

When I wasn't reading this it was all I could think of and that's why I read it in two days!

The beginning and all of the depictions of abuse are so genuinely harrowing that is really is a difficult read. I wasn't entirely sure the system reveal really worked for me but king is a fucking icon so she can do what she wants.

Also, the line, “Your dad said nothing was off limits,” is going to haunt my dreams for the rest of my life.

Some of the landscape and vehicles in this volume especially reminded me of the “Spaceman Spiff” adventures from Calvin's alter ego in Calvin and Hobbes, which really charmed me.

I was already a bit on the fence with this one because imagined conversations between people who are dead really weirds me out! But then! The author said that Iowa is one state away from Pennsylvania which is laughably incorrect and a good reminder that most nonfiction books are not fact checked in any way and memoirs probably even less so!

A bittersweet ending to this wonderful series! I love that we got to see many of the characters grow up and Alpha's understanding of life deepen. Really wonderful.

I really enjoyed the is and it was super fascinating. I do think Yoo maybe left the LAPD off the hook and would have been interested id she pressed them a bit more. But overall, a great resource for teens wanting to learn more about the events.

I liked the connection between so-called “hysteria” and victims of sexual assault and thought it was handled well.

This does a good job of capturing the despair, boredom, and overall weirdness of Ohio and religion in general. The art is great and definitely spooky and while I think some readers might want a more concrete and grounded conclusion, this is still worth a read.

Why yes it did take me 4 months to read this book which betrays my massive amount of privilege to put it down when it got too upsetting. I challenge anyone to read this and come to the conclusion that what the state of Israel - with the help of americas bombs and money - has been doing to the Palestinians is just and humane.

Fun! I love to see the big flirt/commitment phobic person fall head over heels in love!

Not all Webtoon to traditionally published comics work but I think for the most part this one does. It is a sweet, atmospheric tale of friendship and loneliness. The art is really nice and I think teens will enjoy this nice little snack of a comic!

McGinnis writes some of the best small towns with complicated, angry girls!

I really loved this. It managed to be both funny and heartfelt which is pretty hard to pull off when you're writing about murder. Also, great representation for anxious, angry, queer girls with IBS

I really enjoyed this! It was very spicy and has some dubious consent issues which would bother me in real life but this is so clearly not real life that it's fine. Just an FYI in case that is an issue.

I'm curious to see where the rest of the series goes with the literal worldbuilding of a planet made for humans.

This is a book for all the teens who left their small towns because they thought they'd die if they stayed. It gets better. Maybe we can't go home again but we can still live in the sun.

The monsters in this book are genuinely creepy and they reminded me of the Crawler (?) from annihilation which is a top 10 creepy book monster for me. I wanted a little more about the horror of the troubled teen industry but I think teens will really enjoy this one.

I think this would have worked better as an adult book. It just needed .... more. More spice, more emotions, and ok maybe LESS vampires by the end.

It pains me to give this only three stars because it did hire all of there great Mecha story beats for me but I was frustrated with the too obviously evil - and not in that interesting of a way - empire and the mistakes in editing. There were a couple of times where something was handed to a character twice in a row in a way that did not seem intentional and other weird things like that. Again, I don't think Lee meant for this to happen, I think his editor just missed it.

I'll be curious about the review of the next book. I also wanted more info about the lancers but again, maybe that's book two information.

Oh my goodness! Did I like this even more than the first one?! Possibly. It is a very well executed treatise on trauma and how it makes you feel worthless and undeserving of good things. My heart kept breaking for Vanja even as she got some healing. I need the next book IMMEDIATELY. :

This was sweet! It was fun to read about a nerdy interest that I am only on the periphery of since I don't know THAT much about video games. I generally got the idea and was grateful that the author didn't spoil Mass Effect for me! (Yes, I'm aware that game came out in . . . 2007 but I'm just playing it now!)

This book perfectly captures what it feels like to have anxiety and depression: your brain is constantly telling you that you are a piece of trash, a failure, that everything nice everyone has ever said to you is a lie, etc. It's an important reminder to try to take care of yourself, be kind to yourself first so you have the energy to be kind to others, and remember that joy is possible!

This is a great pick for Raina Telgemeier fans and captured the experience of getting chickenpox so well! It's weird to think that many kids don't get chickenpox anymore because of the vaccine. YAY VACCINES!

I thought it was a little strange to have the author herself be the side character but it still mostly works. I think kids will like reading about the sibling chaos and dynamics!

A beautiful, wordless comic about how people come in and out of our lives and how that changes us and them. Incredible, devastating, essential.

A really intriguing concept but I'm not sure I will continue with the series. Possibly? The art is gorgeous but the story felt a little flat to me. Maybe the next volumes will help.