Dear Bookworms, Robby Novak is your average 11 year old boy, well, except for the fact that he has skyrocketed to internet fame thanks to his extremely popular YouTube videos. Robby Novak, you see, is Kid President. If you’ve never seen a Kid President video, do yourself a favor and go look up “A Pep…
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A Write Teacher(s) Review: Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next #2)
Dear Bookworms, In The Eyre Affair, the first novel of Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series, we readers are introduced to a brand new class of detective: Literary Detective. Fforde takes us on a journey with his charming heroine Thursday as she navigates a world in which book-related crime is a daily occurrence and literary enthusiasm…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Winter Garden
Dear Bookworms, “Her name is Vera and she is a poor peasant girl.” So begins the fairytale that Anya Whitson weaves for her daughters. It is about how Vera meets her prince and falls in love despite the hardships and obstacles of living in the Snow Kingdom under the rule of the Black Knight. That’s…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #1)
Dear Bookworms, There are some things that only true readers really understand. The delight in the smell of an old book, the thrill over a long-anticipated copy of a favorite author’s newest work, that hollow sense of aimlessness after you’ve finished a long series, or the excitement of discovering a new series and knowing there…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Red Rising
Dear Bookworms, A powerful government. A system that unfairly divides people into castes. A chosen hero(ine) who fights, bleeds and sacrifices in order to overthrow the corrupt regime. Sound familiar? Of course it does. Those are the basic building blocks of the young adult dystopian novel, and we’ve all read one or five within the…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Is It Just Me?
Dear Bookworms, As the days get shorter and the cold weather sets in, everyone I talk to seems to be feeling some version of tired and run down. Well, here is my prescription to combat all of that: curl up with a soft blanket, a cup of tea and this month’s book recommendation: Is It…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Lila
Dear Bookworms, I love fiction. I love it for so many reasons, but the biggest reason I think is because of the power it possesses to teach us. Reading allows us to learn about things and places we will never see, to experience adventures well beyond the scope of our lives and, most importantly, to…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Expanzaramadingdong, by Jason Steinberg
Hello Beautiful People, Just this week we recieved a package here at The Write Teacher(s) – a copy of Expanzaramadingdong, by Jason Steinberg. Other critics had compared the prose + art of this new literary treasure to that of Shel Silverstein, and so I was immediately curious. Could it be? Another Shel? A different Shel? A…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Food: A Love Story
Dear Bookworms, Are you familiar with the comedian Jim Gaffigan? You may know him for his jokes about Hot Pockets. Well, recently he has become an author as well, writing his first book Dad Is Fat about the comedy that surrounds parenthood. Since so much of his popularity stems from his satire on various types…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Hello Friends, The theatre facilitates community. When I learn that a stranger has a connection with the theatre, I find that they are no longer a stranger but a member of a community that I love dearly. No one outside of the theatre understands the complexity of executing a production and meeting someone seasoned in…