Dear Bookworms, If you haven’t heard of The Martian by now, you’ve probably been living under a large rock. Andy Weir’s bestselling science-fiction novel has soared to great heights recently, with top reviews and a 2015 film adaptation starring Matt Damon. The Wall Street Journal called the book “the best pure sci-fi novel in years.” And for good reason….
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A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Lunar Chronicles
Dear Bookworms, With the recent publication of Winter, the popular new series The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer comes to an end. I, admittedly, was late in coming to this series due to the fact that I was incredibly pessimistic about any more fractured fairytales. However, after having it recommended to me multiple times by…
You Blew It: An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You’ve Already Ruined Your Life
“Anyone who doesn’t treasure the idea of being friends is either a cat or someone who recently became obsessed with home-brewing beer and can’t shut up about it.” (p. 100) You Blew It: An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You’ve Already Ruined Your Life (one of our October picks) by Josh Gondleman…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: All the Light We Cannot See
Dear Bookworms, By now, many of you may be familiar with Anthony Doerr’s popular novel All the Light We Cannot See. Originally published in May of 2014, it quickly gained a place on the New York Times best seller list, and remains there even now. Readers, the praise this novel has received is not undue. …
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Well of Lost Plots
Dear Bookworms, For every book that is published and sent out into the world, there are at least eight that remain, for one reason or another, unpublished and unheard of – well, unheard of by you and I anyway. Literature, as we know from the other Thursday Next adventures, is a world unto itself in…
How Do You Know?
“How come gray hair on handsome men makes them look distinguished and sexy, while gray hair on a pretty woman means she is getting old and should head to the stylist for a $200 touch up?” If you happen to pick up a copy of How Do You Know? By Meredith Schorr, the above quote…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Right Design
Dear Bookworms, Overall, The Right Design by Isabella Louise Anderson is best described as a quick romp – in more ways than one. Originally written as a NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) composition, the finished product is not strongly developed but rather short and light, best suited as a quick afternoon beach read. As such,…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Fly Away
Hello Beautiful People, If you are looking for a new author to fall in love iwth, I cannot recommend Kristin Hannah enough. Here at The Write Teacher(s), we’re big fans. You can read more on her here. But alas, I digress. Once upon a time, I read Firefly Lane – a story that touched my…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Starstruck
Hello Beautiful People, Brace yourself…you’re about to be starstrucked. Well, kinda. I’m talking about the latest book in Ruby Preston’s colorful and engaging tale about Scarlett Savoy – a savvy new producer on The Great White Way. We first meet Scarlett in SHOWBIZ…Scarlett, a young producer working for a less than desirable boss, trying to nagivate…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: If You Feel Too Much
Dear Bookworms, The world is full of hurting people. Everywhere you go there are individuals caught in the traps of drug use, depression and hopelessness. A few years ago, a young man named Jamie Tworkowski came face to face with this reality when he met a woman struggling with the weight of these very things…