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One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon – REVIEW

If you read contemporary young adult fiction, you’ve probably heard of Nicola Yoon. Her wildly popular novels The Sun is Also a Star and Everything, Everything adored by readers and were even made into movies. To be perfectly honest, her young adult novels never appealed to me. However, Yoon’s upcoming adult debut, One of Our Kind, is a very… Continue reading
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Ten Books I Need to Read This Year

Does anyone else keep only a small selection of physical books? I used to keep up with all the book boxes and special editions and had huge shelves of physical books, but I realized that I wasn’t ever actually reading the books on my shelves. While there are certain books I buy multiple editions of,… Continue reading
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Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 1, The Case of the Missing Men by Kris Bertin – REVIEW

The Case of the Missing Men is volume one in the graphic novel Hobtown Mystery Stories and follows a high school Detective Club that solves crimes around Hobtown (population: 2,006). When the Club gets their first real case to solve, they start to uncover weird things happening under the surface of their town. The Case of the Missing Men is… Continue reading
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The Cull, Volume 1 by Kelly Thompson and Mattia De Iulis – REVIEW

The Cull bills itself as Something is Killing the Children meets “The Goonies,” which sounds right up my alley. Its summary reads like a Karen McManus young adult mystery-horror, which hooked me. Five teen friends leave their homes in the middle of the night to shoot a film at the beach, but one of them is lying to the… Continue reading
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Ten Hugo Finalists I Picked Up This Week – ROAD TO THE HUGOS

In case you missed my Sunday Post, the 2024 Hugo Award Finalists were recently announced. One thing I realized very quickly after the announcement is that I am very behind this year. While we wait for the Voter Packet to be prepared for the voters, I desperately needed to start reading some of the finalists… Continue reading
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Sunday Post – Hugo Nominees and Thoughts

Welcome back to Back Shelf Books for another Sunday Post! How is it already April?? It feels like it was just January! I can’t believe we’re a quarter of the way through the year already. The 2024 Hugo Award nominees were announced this past week. While I’m extremely disappointed in what happened with the 2023… Continue reading




