Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2017: Read a book about books. This was an easy challenge. :) It says something about the cover design that I thought this was a kids' book...and somehow, it did have that flavor. There was something very light and distant about the writing style that felt the way younger-audience books sometimes do -- like you know nothing will really hurt you as the reader. Yet plenty of sad and serious things happen in this book. I found myself eager to keep reading it, and there are many things to touch a book-lover's heart. Based on her book selections (The Pox Party at, what, age 8?), I could believe Maya was something of a prodigy. 
 "Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual." 
 "The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything." 
 "And then, despite the fact that A.J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart." 
 "You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?" 
 "But jackets are the redheaded stepchildren of book publishing. We blame them for everything." 
 "Their happiness is not her unhappiness."