Review: Paperback Crush by Gabrielle Moss
I'm not going to deny it. I had one of the biggest--no, the biggest--fangirl moment of my adult life when I pulled my copy of Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of 80s and 90s Teen Fiction from the padded envelope it came in. The cover alone brought back a massive wave of nostalgia, reminding me of the books I loved from age eight when I first discovered The Baby-Sitters Club in my primary school library one Friday morning, to age eighteen when I read Lois Lowry's A Summer to Die shortly after a close friend passed away from cancer. This full colour book explores many of the middle grade and young adult titles from a now past era--where children's books were shorter, were inexpensive enough to be purchased with pocket money and the focus was on fun. These weren't the real life books from the 1970s (though I read many of them as well,) or the blockbuster trilogies that started appearing after Harry Potter, and then Twilight changed the middle grade and young...