Graceling is set in a world in which some people are graced with gifts. They might be as pleasurable as the grace of fine cooking, or as deadly as the one that Katsa has; she is graced with the ability to kill. Because of this grace, she becomes the tool of a corrupt king who […]

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I recently read Dairy Queen and The Off Season by Catherine Murdock, two young-adult novels about DJ Schwenk, a Wisconsin farm girl-turned-football player. Yep, football player.
This isn’t generally the kind of book I’d pick up on my day off, but something about the idea of Wisconsin appealed to me. I visited rural Wisconsin last […]

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