Melinda Brasher

Like many of you, I do the Goodreads yearly book challenge. My goal was to read 50 books and I managed to read 52. Of course, half of...

Here are the best books I read in 2021 based purely on my enjoyment: 1) Look Big; and other tips for surviving animal encounters of all...

Cashore's Graceling is one of my favorite fantasy books ever. Winterkeep is the fourth in the series, with a very different feel, and...

Here are the best books I read in 2020, based purely on my enjoyment: 1) Extraordinary Birds, by Sandy Stark McGinnis—A beautiful middle...

Here are some of the books I remember liking most from my high school years. You'll notice a high proportion of fantasy, science fiction,...

I read part of this as an e-book and listened to the rest as an audiobook, and I thought the reader, Jennifer English, was really good....

I enjoyed this. It's a strange style, with lots of "dear reader"-type sections where the narrators address the reader directly. It quite...

I've read both of these books recently, but only after finishing the second did I realize how similar their covers are. And...the plots...

Here are the best books I read in 2019, based purely on my enjoyment 1) The Other Side of Lost, by Jessi Kirby, a YA novel about a girl...

This is a book I found on a "Best of 2019 YA Literature" list.  I really enjoyed it. It has a sort of Groundhog Day premise, with our...