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Rolo's Book Buzz
Book Reviews and More
Welcome to the Buzz
Welcome to Rolo's Book Buzz. This is a venture born of a whole bunch of love and a little bit of boredom. Since retiring from my job as a high school English teacher, I read A LOT of books. Here you will find some of the books I love as well as an occasional "book nerd" commentary or two. I hope you enjoy the blog and find some books here that you will love too.
28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand
By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Summer of '69: Their secret love affair has lasted for decades -- but this could be the...
Angela Roloson
Jan 3, 20242 min read
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(Extra)Ordinary by Starr Z. Davies
Paragon altered Bianca’s memory. The Directorate turned her into a weapon. Seventeen-year-old Bianca Pond is the ultimate fighting...
Angela Roloson
Dec 28, 20232 min read
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Unique by Starr Z Davies
Genre: Science Fiction; Young Adult; Dystopia Ugene and the other test subjects escaped Paragon. They thought they were finally safe. But...
Angela Roloson
Dec 28, 20231 min read
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Ordinary by Starr Z. Davies
Genre: Young Adult Description: Having a superpower is ordinary. Your Power determines your entire life. But 17-year-old Ugene is...
Angela Roloson
Dec 23, 20231 min read
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Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow
A 2023 National Book Award Finalist! A resourceful teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom...
Angela Roloson
Dec 23, 20232 min read
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Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Summary “You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need...
Angela Roloson
Dec 20, 20232 min read
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Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Summary In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her...
Angela Roloson
Dec 20, 20232 min read
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What My Bones Know
Summary A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science...
Angela Roloson
Dec 20, 20232 min read
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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Summary “Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead.” So begins the...
Angela Roloson
Dec 20, 20233 min read
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Lady Tan's Circle of Friends by Lisa See
Summary The latest historical novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from...
Angela Roloson
Dec 12, 20232 min read
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The Things We Leave Unfinished
Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a brutal divorce—the New York house, the...
Angela Roloson
Dec 12, 20232 min read
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Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
Summary This is the 2nd book in the Arc of a Scythe serries. Rowan has gone rogue, and has taken it upon himself to put the Scythedom...
Angela Roloson
Dec 4, 20232 min read
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chasing wildfires: the journey of loving an addict
To the person reading this, sometimes we get caught in the crossfire of a storm inside someone that we didn’t start and become collateral...
Angela Roloson
Nov 20, 20231 min read
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The Guest List by Lucy Foley
This novel won the Goodreads Readers' Choice Award for Best Mystery & Thriller (2020) A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this...
Angela Roloson
Nov 20, 20232 min read
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Not So Perfect Strangers by L.S. Stratton
One fateful encounter upends the lives of two women in this tense domestic thriller, a modern spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers On A...
Angela Roloson
Oct 30, 20232 min read
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Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love...
Angela Roloson
Oct 30, 20232 min read
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Scythe by Neal Shusterman
In 2041, what we currently call "the cloud" morphed into a version of AI called "the Thundercloud" that was able to solve all of the...
Angela Roloson
Oct 24, 20231 min read
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Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
This was a Goodreads Choice Award winner last year in the Science Fiction Category. A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that...
Angela Roloson
Oct 23, 20233 min read
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Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena's...
Angela Roloson
Oct 17, 20234 min read
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What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison. They were heroes . . . but they were liars. Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic....
Angela Roloson
Oct 17, 20234 min read
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