“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.” From the book jacket: “It’s February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands…

Sometimes, I get a book stuck in my head. It’s even harder to shake than a song. This year, my “It’s a Small World” (sorry) has been Sarah J. Maas’s Throne of Glass series. I checked out the first book, Throne of Glass, from my local library last summer, and it’s safe to say I…

“What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.” When people tell you to read a book, listen to them. I’ve been getting recommendations for this one for a while,…