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Small Spaces - Katherine Arden

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Book Blurb After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think--she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price. Ollie is captivated by the tale until her school trip the next day to Smoke Hollow, a local farm with a haunting history all its own. There she stumbles upon the graves of the very people she's been reading about. Could it be the story about the smiling man is true? Ollie doesn't have too long to think about the answer to that. On the way home, the school bus breaks down, sending their teacher back to the farm for help. Bu
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Illunimae - Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

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Book Blurb: This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to fight their way onto an evacuating fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit. But their problems are just getting started. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results; the fleet's AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to find the truth, it's clear only one person can help her bring it all to light: the ex-boyfriend she  swore  she'd never speak to again.
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Emma-Jane Austen

Every book has a right time and place for it to be read. If you're not in that "time and place" zone, chances are that you might not be interested in the book, no matter how popular the book. Such was the case with me when i first read Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (NA) for my class during graduation. Although, after having read NA and Pride and Prejudice (P&P) twice (neither of which garnered interest for me to keep reading Austen), I felt I should just drop Austen out of my TBR list. But I figured I might as well give her another shot (as I own all the copies of her books). And I'm glad I did, as Emma was a game changer. She is definitely a hoot, there have been a lot of laugh-out-loud moments in the book. I knew how the story was going to pan out but that did not discourage me to go along with Emma around the countryside. In my opinion, I would rate this book higher than P&P (don't ask me why). I loved Emma with all her flaws-her silliness, her
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