Katherine Hamadeh

Category: Book Reviews

  • TBT: Babysitters on Board (Baby-Sitters Club, Super Special #1)

    A cruise ship. The Bahamas. Disney. Extremely detailed descriptions of Claudia Kishi’s elaborate outfits.   Ann M. Martin. The woman knew how to sell books to 1980s tweens.   I cannot forget how excited my friends and I were when this book came out. Before websites and YouTube channels dedicated to following every detail of a topic,…

  • Dear Judy #6: Here’s to You, Rachel Robinson

    Dear Judy,  As I’ve told you before, Just as Long as We’re Together is one of my all-time favorite books. So much so that my copy from 4th grade was on my shelf throughout high school, and made the trip with me to a college dorm and a first apartment and my adult home.  So…

  • Dear Judy Blume #5: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

    Dear Judy Blume,  When I was in 3rd grade, I was Peter’s mother.  My teacher really liked theater. She staged her own adaptations of Fiddler on the Roof, Annie Get Your Gun and Bye, Bye Birdie. Only in high school when learning more about theater and copyrights did I discover that oh, that was super…

  • Dear Judy Blume #3: Forever … 

    Dear Judy Blume,  I just finished Forever… I never read this book and keep trying to think if it was in our school library. And then I keep thinking of Mrs. Kirk, our (maybe?) long suffering school librarian. Mrs. Kirk was a woman of few words, except apparently when she was on morning duty. In…

  • Dear Judy Blume #2: Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret

    Dear Judy Blume,  When I was maybe 8 or 9 years old, my family was watching an episode of Roseanne where Darlene got her period. I asked my mom what that meant. She said we weren’t talking about it, and changed the channel.  A year or so later, my friend told me that I had…

  • The Summer I Turned Pretty: Book Review

    The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han Little late to the game with this one, but all summer, in the background noise of my social media, I kept hearing the buzzing of the sounds of the premiere of season two of the series based on The Summer I Turned Pretty book trilogy by Jenny…