Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384 pages
Published: September 15, 2020
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Race
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Book Review: Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 400 pages
Published: September 1, 2020
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Poetry
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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 361 pages
Published: May 30, 2017
Publisher: Delacorte Press
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Book Review: The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 346 pages
Published: January 8, 2018
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Genre: Fiction & Literature, Mystery & Thrillers
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Weekly Tea Discussion: Book Hype
Your friend recommends a new book to you. Everyone is talking about it, from online reviews to book bloggers, everyone cannot stop talking about this book. So you finally give in, borrow or buy the book, and begin reading.
You read.
You read.
And you read.
Until you get to the last line of that final chapter and you ask yourself: this is it? This is the book that was so great that everyone is talking about? It wasn’t that great at all, so what is the big deal?
Fellow readers, you have just become a victim of book hype.
