Author: Tanita Davis

tanita s. davis is a writer and avid reader who prefers books to most things in the world, including people. That's ...pretty much it, she's very awkward and she can't even tell jokes. She is, however, the author of eleven books, including Serena Says, Partly Cloudy, Go Figure, Henri Weldon, The Science of Friendship and the Coretta Scott King honored Mare's War. Look for her new MG, book Berry Parker Doesn't Catch Crushes September 2025 from HarperCollins Childrens' Books.

May 12, 2015

TURNING PAGES: 5 to 1 by Holly Bodger

The cover of this novel is striking and colorful, signalling a South Asian tale. Readers may be surprised to discover that it’s both dystopian…

May 5, 2015

TURNING PAGES: THE UNTAKEN by J.E. ANCKORN

“No, seriously, this is the LAST post-apocalyptic dystopian book I’m going to review.” I say that frequently, don’t I? And yet, I keep finding…

May 1, 2015

TURNING PAGES: SERIOUSLY WICKED, by TINA CONNOLLY

After being seriously blown away by Tina Connolly’s alternate history as depicted in her Ironskin trilogy, I was a bit surprised to see this…

April 25, 2015

Psst. Enjoying The Forever Girls?

Click to embiggen. Happy Weekend! Enjoy The Forever Girls, a little tale by graphic novelist and cartoonist (& Melissa Wiley’s beau) Scott Peterson, with…

April 24, 2015

TURNING PAGES: UNDERTOW by MICHAEL BUCKLEY

I’ve read two adventures lately which I can only describe as “cinematic.” There’s so much chaotic action, I can easily imagine the novel translating…

April 23, 2015

IN TANDEM: HUSH, by JACQUELINE WOODSON

Welcome to another edition of In Tandem, the read-and-review blog series where both A.F. and I give our on-the-spot commentary as we read and…

April 17, 2015

TURNING PAGES: THE LUMBERJANES Vol 1, by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke Allen, and Shannon Watters

It’s a truth acknowledged universally &tc. that I am not the artsy person in this blogging duo. A.F. – she draws, she’s Cybil’d, she…

April 14, 2015

TURNING PAGES: COLD BURN OF MAGIC by JENNIFER ESTEP

I’m always intrigued when authors I’ve read in adult fiction turn their attention to the YA realm. I’ve only read one other Estep YA…

April 8, 2015

TURNING PAGES: Arsenic for Tea by Robin Stevens

Awhile back we met Hazel and Daisy in Murder Most Unladylike – or, in clunky American titling, MURDER IS BAD MANNERS (I have a…

April 3, 2015

More Poetry Month!

It’s lovely having a personal connection to poetry – and a poet. We’ve all known (for a given value of communicated-on-the-internet-met-in-person-only-once knowing) poet Kelly…

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