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…
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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…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Tuck Everlasting
Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live. – Tuck Everlasting In 1975 Natalie Babbitt published one of the most beloved children’s books, Tuck Everlasting. The story of Tuck Everlasting centers around the Tuck family, who has been cursed (or blessed)…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Blackbird
A 40-year-old man has sex repeatedly with a 12-year-old girl. 12-year-old girl loves that man. Man goes to jail for three years. Fifteen years later, the girl, now a grown woman, comes to find the man. What could possibly happen after that? Blackbird. Blackbird on Broadway is what happens. For those of you who are unfamiliar…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Paris Key
The Paris Key, by Juliet Blackwell, is a delight. Truly, it’s a delight. The fancy bio is thus: As a girl, Genevieve Martin spent the happiest summer of her life in Paris, learning the delicate art of locksmithing at her uncle’s side. But since then, living back in the States, she has become more private,…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Revenant – Oscar Best Picture Nominations 2016
We’ve made it to film five on our list. Whew. It’s been a long few days, filled with movie magic. The next bit of movie magic is The Revenant, starring Leo himself. As I sat in the theatre waiting for this movie to begin, I was musing on Leo’s run with the Academy Awards, and…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Spotlight – Oscar Best Picture Nominations 2016
Dear Write Reader(s), I am sitting at the theater bar in between showings, drinking a seltzer water (scouts honor) and I am using my downtime to finish up these articles so you can read them all and enjoy the Academy Awards tomorrow night as you should. I just left Spotlight, and all I can think…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Something Rotten (Thursday Next #4)
Dear Bookworms, Jasper Fforde’s lighthearted romp through literature continues in Something Rotten, his fourth book in the Thursday Next series. Tired out after a two year stint running Jurisfiction within the BookWorld, Thursday Next decides it is time to return to the outside world and reclaim her actual life. Her assignments in fiction, however, are…