Category: Chatterbox

Our Favourite YA Relationships: Couples, Friends and Family

Our Favourite YA Relationships: Couples, Friends and Family

Valentines Day is here, and while it’s commercially focused on romantic relationships, we wanted to highlight all the YA relationships that we loved! Whether it’s a couple, family or friendship, it’s important to spotlight all the relationships that can form a part of our lives. Aila: I’m putting a small feature of my favorite BroTP’s […]

February 14, 2018 | 11 Comments
We’re All Optimists

We’re All Optimists

Optimism. I have been thinking a lot lately about our attitude to life and how this affects us in reading and blogging. I recently read an article about how people who are always late (such as myself), tend to have a warped sense of time because they believe they can achieve more in the time […]

December 16, 2017 | 14 Comments
Chatterbox: About My Love For Non-European Fantasies + Recommendations

Chatterbox: About My Love For Non-European Fantasies + Recommendations

Eurocentrism, or Western-centrism, is prominent in both society and literature due to many reasons. It stems from the colonization that happened during the 17th century and continued with the way the colonial empires shaped the present day that we’re in. As such, many books in Young Adult literature focus on cultures, myths, and traditions that […]

August 1, 2017 | 19 Comments
By Aila J.
Posted in Chatterbox, Features
Successful Books Pushed By My Co-Bloggers

Successful Books Pushed By My Co-Bloggers

Hello everyone! If you’ve been following this blog long enough, you’ll recognize that Jeann, Jenna and I have varying tastes in books (although there are obvious overlaps of the more amazing ones). In this post, I’ll be highlighting some of the successful books (trust me, there were some that weren’t as successful) that Jeann and […]

July 15, 2017 | 7 Comments
By Aila J.
Posted in Chatterbox, Features