Dear Bookworms, True to her reputation as a gifted writer of suspenseful series, Terri Blackstock has just released another thrilling start in her latest book If I Run. The story follows Casey Cox, a young woman alone and desperate, running from the consequences of a crime she didn’t commit. I will leave you to discover…
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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…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Martian
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….
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…
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book that is published and sent out into the world, there are at least eight that remain, for one reason or another, unpublished and unheard of – well, unheard of by you and I anyway.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…
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…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: Kid President’s Guide to Being Awesome
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…
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…