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Review: Partly Cloudy, Tanita Davis

Published 27 Sep 2021 by Gin Jenny

I discovered Tanita Davis memorably at an event where I was supposed to be doing things and paying attention, but because I had gotten so wrapped up in her middle grade novel Peas and Carrots, I just read and read and read it and ignored the events happening all around me. Which was/is kind of surprising! I don’t think of myself as a huge reader of middle grade books. Even at a time when middle grade is clearly undergoing an explosion of awesome content, it doesn’t tend to do much for me. I have, tragically, aged out of it. (I’m…

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Seeing Kara Walker Tomorrow: A Links Round-Up

Published 23 Feb 2018 by Gin Jenny

I don’t have any links about Kara Walker. But y’all should be excited for me because I’m seeing a Kara Walker thing tomorrow and Kara Walker will be there. So hooray. My only sadness is that the way the exhibition is, there won’t be a gift shop. But anyway! On to the links! The cost of reporting while female. I always love reading the Lithub discussions of how book designers come up with their book covers. This is a particularly good one. If you want to read romance, but you’re not sure where to start, Kelly Faircloth has your recs.…

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The Intimidating TBR Tag

Published 28 Oct 2016 by Gin Jenny

And now it’s time for the walk of shame. The beautiful and brilliant Renay has tagged me to talk about my TBR list, and I hang my head woefully and confess my TBR sins. 1. What book have you been unable to finish? Future Crimes, by Mark Goodman. I started it a while back, and it wasn’t that I wasn’t into it, but you know how if you kept getting lice as a kid because that one girl in your class had a crunchy granola mother who I guess didn’t believe in Nix Shampoo and wouldn’t do anything about her…

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Peas and Carrots, Tanita Davis

Published 26 Apr 2016 by Gin Jenny

“But Jenny, you should read Tanita Davis! Perhaps this new one, Peas and Carrots!” “Oh, gosh, it seems like she has a sort of middle-grade aesthetic going on, and I tend to prefer older-skewing YA, so I’ll maybe give her a miss.” “Jenny, no really, Tanita Davis, she’s right up your–” “Shhhhh, I’m busy.” FOOLISH FOOLISH FOOLISH JENNY. Have I not yet learned that I should listen to bloggers and their wisdom? Even if I have reservations? Peas and Carrots is about two girls, Hope and Dess, who become foster sisters without either of them particularly wanting to be. In alternating…

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