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…
“Whenever [he] looked at a book, he did not see it purely in terms of a story, minimum retail price and an essential balm for the soul; he saw freedom on wings of paper.” (p. 143) Hello Readers, The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George (one of our June picks) was a lesson in “Don’t…
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…
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…
“The truth is, we need our friends. I mean, we need Jesus to truly complete us, but we absolutely need our girlfriends, because no man wants to listen to all the words we have to say in the course of a day.” – p. 36 Hello Readers, I have been blessed with a handful of…
Hi Readers! “Little free libraries are an oasis of serendipity in what is a fairly programmed age.” – p. 89 All libraries are beautiful in their own way. Many of the libraries we interact with today are town or county libraries and they don’t offer much in the way of inspiring architecture and breathtaking stacks…
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…
Hello fellow readers! I hope you had a chance to read more books last month than you anticipated. I have been able to carve a generous amount of time out during my workweek to get some reading done. Getting wrapped up in a good book always lifts my spirits. Here are three books being published…
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…
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…