[Book Review] Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier’s best friend from the award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst.

When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group, she’s the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon.

So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended.

[Book Blogger Hop] June 9-15th

 Book Blogger Hop

Book Blogger Hop's purpose is to give bloggers a chance to discover and follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend bloggers, and gain followers. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end on Thursday where there will be a weekly prompt following a bookish question.

Question:
If you could have lunch with any living authors and/or book bloggers, who would you choose and why?

Answer: 

There are a lot of authors I'd be honored to talk to, but (and this is something I've mentioned before) I think I would be so unsure of what to ask. I love to write, but I don't feel comfortable calling myself a writer. I think I would love to sit down with either J.K. Rowling or Becky Albertalli. I also wouldn't mind hugging Patrick Rothfuss, who seems like a literal sweetheart. I think instead of bombarding them with the normal questions about their career I would just want to talk to them about their lives, maybe current events, maybe get some inspirational advice from them over coffee or tea.

For book bloggers, honestly I would love to sit down with any book bloggers. Talking books and eating good food is always a great time. I am always up for more bookish friends. However, The ones that immediately come to mind are:

Erica from The Literary Apothecary 
Elizabeth from Silver's Reviews
Amy Nikita from A Magical World of Words

and of course Erica from Erica Robyn Reads. I know Erica in real life and I love being able to hang out with her. We went to high school together, but we now live in separate states and it really sucks to live in a different state away from your best friend! So going out for lunch with her would be an awesome treat!

 

Thanks for reading! 

What about you? Are there any authors or bloggers you'd love to go out to lunch with?

[Book Review] The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love—she’s lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection. So she’s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.

Then a cute new girl enters Cassie’s orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly’s cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly’s totally not dying of loneliness—except for the part where she is. Luckily, Cassie’s new girlfriend comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick. Will is funny and flirtatious and just might be perfect crush material. Maybe more than crush material. And if Molly can win him over, she’ll get her first kiss and she’ll get her twin back.

There’s only one problem: Molly’s coworker Reid. He’s an awkward Tolkien superfan with a season pass to the Ren Faire, and there’s absolutely no way Molly could fall for him. Right?