If you’re a fan of YA fiction and you’re not yet familiar with Sarah Ockler, you should be. Ockler has a gift for carefully weaving together tales of friendship, family, love and heartbreak; often all in the same book. Her characters and settings are both unique and realistic, and you can’t help but feel emotionally […]

With young adult fiction currently being dominated by dystopian and paranormal genres, it’s easy to forget the simple pleasure of reading a contemporary YA story with realistic characters dealing with realistic issues. Thankfully there are a handful of talented authors who keep plugging away at the contemporary genre, including The Book of Broken Hearts author […]

Things I Can’t Forget is the third book in Miranda Kenneally’s Hundred Oaks series. Despite being part of a series, all of the Hundred Oaks books can stand alone – you don’t need to have read a previous book to appreciate or understand a later book. There are some crossover characters since all the books […]

Lauren Miller’s debut novel, Parallel, is a stunningly complex novel about a young woman named Abby who wakes up one morning only to discover that she has somehow wound up in a parallel universe where, instead of living out in L.A. and having a role in a sure-to-be-blockbuster movie, she is studying journalism at Yale.  […]

Parallel by Lauren Miller honestly left me speechless. That’s a pretty difficult thing to do, but as soon as I finished reading the final words, I couldn’t do anything but sit in silence and try to wrap my mind around how a book can be that complex and adorable and amazing all at the same […]

Let’s face it.  We are all “material people” and we live in a “material” world.  I can openly admit that material things make me a much happier person.  I enjoy being around people and animals, but material things are just a necessity in my life.  Here are the five things I cannot live without.

The Madness Underneath is the second book in Maureen Johnson’s Shades of London trilogy. There may be spoilers for the first book, The Name of the Star, in this review. After reading The Name of the Star, I thought I had an idea of what might happen in the next book in the series. Sure, […]

The first trailer for the highly anticipated movie Ender’s Game is finally here, and it packs a lot into a very short two minutes. The back story for the movie, adapted from Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, is relatively complicated, and I think the trailer does a good job of presenting the core concept of […]

To preface, it is important to note that I have a tendency to avoid YA paranormal like the plague. This is mostly due to the fact that, in my experience, most of these books tend to be very melodramatic with unbelievable doomed romances. I’m not interested in reading about a human girl in love with […]

Rory Samantha Green brings readers an adorably funny read with her self-published debut novel Playing Along. The book, told from the alternating perspectives of British heartthrob George and California girl Lexi, follows the two as they try to figure out how life and love fit together, narrowly missing meeting each other several times in the […]

I am a sucker for romantic comedies. Any story with a sense of humor and a couple who may or may not know that they are meant to be together is right up my alley, which is probably why I loved Playing Along by Rory Samantha Green. George is the lead singer of the popular […]

When The Daily Quirk Bloggers aren’t writing, they’re reading! We decided it would be fun to share our bibliophilia with you by listing what we have been reading each month and giving you our opinions on a three point scale: Recommend It, Maybe, or Skip It. Have fun checking out what pages we’ve been turning, and feel free […]

Susan Rizzo Vincent, with the help of her daughter Andréa Rizzo, has written a heart-wrenchingly beautiful novel about tragedy, death, cancer and the strength and love it takes to move on. Dréa’s Dream: An Unfinished Dance starts in 2011 with Susan looking back over her life – the decisions, the heartbreak, the triumphs and the love […]

Susan Rizzo Vincent, author of Dréa s Dream: An Unfinished Dance and founder of The Andréa Rizzo Foundation, has provided hope, comfort, and inspiration to countless individuals through her book, chronicling the experience of her and her daughter Andréa’s overcoming of childhood illness only to be separated by an unforeseeable tragedy (read the review), and through the foundation she founded in Andréa’s honor, which helps children with […]