The Upside of Unrequited Becky Albertalli Balzer + Bray, 2017 Geek Rating: Aeolus worthy (1 out of 5 stars) “Sometimes I feel like I’m the last alone person. Like maybe there aren’t seven and a half billion people in the world. Maybe there are seven and a half billion and one. I’m the one.” From the author…

Turtles All the Way Down John Green Dutton Books, 2017 Geek Rating: Helios worthy (4 out of 5 stars) Eisenberg Rating: 1,700 out of 2,000 stars The story goes like this: after a lecture on cosmology and the structure of the solar system, Harvard professor William James was accosted by a little old lady. “We…

Love Letters to the Dead Ava Dellaira Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2014 Rating: “Sometime when we say things, we hear silence. Or only echoes. Like screaming from inside. And that’s really lonely.” The letters were addressed to Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger and many other famous dead individuals, written by Laurel,…

The Rest of Us Just Live Here Patrick Ness Walker Books, 2015 Rating: “Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.” Do you ever wonder what happens to those people in the background after a hero saves…

Because You’ll Never Meet Me Leah Thomas Bloomsbury, July 2015 Rating:  In this book review, we will read through the letters of two young boys destined to never meet each other, Oliver Paulot, a boy from the United States who is deathly allergic to electricity and Moritz Farber from Kreizig, Germany, a boy with a…