Carling Mars

I read this book in two sittings–over a forgotten, rapidly cooling latte and later, on a boat in the Green River in eastern Utah, so engrossed that I barely noticed the red cliffs. This novel will sink its teeth into you and you won’t want it to let go. Denna, the protagonist of All the Bad Apples, comes from a very uptight, controlling Irish family that doesn’t take kindly to any abnormalities. Rumors have started floating around Deena’s Dublin high school that she’s a lesbian (the real trouble is that the rumors are absolutely true). On Deena’s seventeenth birthday, her older […]

Amalia Andrade sets high goals for herself: in a recent interview, she said she wants to be the Adele and Beyoncé of books. You Always Change the Love of Your Life (For Another Love or Another Life) performed well in its original Spanish version (Penguin Books released the English translation of the book in December), and it’s plain to see why. Her book–mostly handwritten, with many illustrations–is accessible and easygoing. It’s an eclectic mix of advice, fiction, short creative nonfiction pieces, mixtapes, and recipes, with plenty of guided writing and drawing exercises for her readers. Andrade entered herself into a rehab […]