Here’s a quick review of some young adult books that you might want to read.
Category: Not so geeky books (NGSB)
Geek Book Review: History is All You Left Me
A story about grief and guilt and on making peace with the past. This is one of the books that will leave a mark long after you read it.
Geek book review: In Defense of “The Tattooist of Auschwitz”
In April 1942, Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners.
Geek Book Review: Natasha Ngan’s “Girls of Paper and Fire”
Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It’s the highest honor they could hope for and the most demeaning. This year, there’s a ninth. And instead of paper, she’s made of fire.
There’s a boxy loop of youth: the Geek Book Review of “Emporium” (Plus “Someday,” and “I Was Born for This”)
This collection of nine stories from Pulitzer Prize winning author Adam Johnson has been around for some time but it was only recently just been published in a book.
2018 Geek Prize List of Winners
We present the list of winners for the 2018 Geek Prize. Best Books of 2018: Ginger Kid by Steve Hofstetter Best TV Series of 2018: Rise Top Movie Pick: Der Untergang Best Book Cover: They Both Die at the End Best Movie Poster: Solo Best TV Show Poster: Legion Best TV Series Intro: Iron Fist…
2018 Geek Prize: Top 10 Best Books of the Year
We present our list of the Top 10 Best Books of 2018. Top 10: Manuscripts from Accra (Paulo Coelho) “In life’s most significant moments we are always alone.” The year is 1099, and the Muslims, Jews, and (Coptic) Christians of Jerusalem are about to be overrun by the armies of the European Crusaders. The people…
2018 Geek Prize List of Nominees
Best Books of 2018 Nominees A Hologram for the King Call Me By Your Name Every Last Word Ginger Kid Happy Again How to Stop Time Manuscripts from Acra Running with Lions The Silent Cry The Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze They Both Die at the End Top Ten What Happened What To Say…
Death-Cast called to tell him he’s going to die today: The Geek book review of “They Both Die at the End”
They Both Die at the End Adam Silvera HarperTeen, 2017 Geek Rating: Sun god worthy (4 out of 5 stars) “No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.” “What would you do if you found out you were about to die?” That was the question the author Adam Silvera apparently…
“Some of them weren’t my friends at all”: Ginger Kid book review (+ Burning Maze, Without Merit, What to Say Next)
We take a look at four books this week from Rick Riordan’s third book in The Trials of Apollo series: The Burning Maze, to Julie Buxbaum’s What to Say Next, Colleen Hoover’s crazy story Without Merit, to comedian Steve Hofstetter’ personal essay Ginger Kid. The Burning Maze Rick Riordan, Disney-Hyperion 2018 Geek rate: Thief worthy (2 out of…
