If you’re looking for a new book to read, I cannot recommend Stay With Me, by Ayobami Adebayo. Here’s the official book blurb: Ilesa, Nigeria. Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage—after consulting fertility doctors and…
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A Write Teacher(s) Review: Beartown, by Fredrik Backman
This month our book club pick is Beartown, by Fredrik Backman. Here’s the official book blurb: People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever-encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Monday Morning Leadership
Dear Bookworms, Recently, I received a recommendation from a well-respected business leader to read the book Monday Morning Leadership. He recommended it as one that had impacted his own perspective significantly and so I took note. For readers, teachers, or just life-long learners, a good book is an invaluable tool, and if this one has…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Giant Days
Dear Bookworms, This year I have decided to take up the Genre Challenge (see January’s article on Three Types of Reading Goals for 2017) and delve into some types of literature I don’t normally read. To begin, I decided to start with one glaring hole on my bookshelves: the graphic novel. Graphic novels have become…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Great Typo Hunt
Dear Bookworms, This summer, I stumbled across a book called The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing The World, One Correction At A Time at a library book sale. As a writer, editor, and general lover of all things English, I was immediately drawn to it. Written by Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson, The Great…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Thursday Next #6)
Dear Bookworms, With this sixth installment of the Thursday Next series, Jasper Fforde delves once again into the complexities of the BookWorld – and shakes up all the rules. To begin with, the novel opens immediately upon an account of the BookWorld’s transformation from an interstellar layout to a terrestrial one with free-floating landmasses. Although…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Bonjour Kale
Dear Bookworms, The famous city of Paris holds many allures, but for expat Kristen Beddard, it was missing one key element: kale. Try as she might, after moving to the City of Light with her husband for his work, she was unable to locate this one vegetable that has come to represent home and comfort…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Starbound Series
Dear Bookworms, With the printing of Their Fractured Light at the end of last year, co-authors Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner have concluded their exciting YA series the Starbound trilogy. This action packed series is a layered series, much like the highly-acclaimed Lunar Chronicles, where each novel introduces a new set of characters and follows…
A Write Teacher(s) Review – Last Night’s Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors
Dear Bookworms, One of my favorite things about reading is how it communicates ideas and allows those thoughts to be shared across boundaries. A written work can be discovered by two people living in different parts of the world, who have entirely different tastes, backgrounds and life experiences, but both of whom will stumble across…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: First Among Sequels (Thursday Next #5)
Dear Bookworms, Picking up fourteen years since we last adventured with literary detective Thursday Next, First Among Sequels finds our beloved heroine a bit older but no less embroiled in the complicated issues of real-world and BookWorld literature. Her role as the Last Bastion of Common Sense within the BookWorld’s Council of Genres, means…