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. …
Tag: Literature
Everything, Everything
In Everything, Everything (one of our September picks) by Nicola Yoon, the reader is introduced to Madeline, a girl who is allergic to everything. Madeline lives with her mom in a completely sanitized house with an air filtration system. She has never been to school. She has never gone to visit a friend. She has…
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book that is published and sent out into the world, there are at least eight that remain, for one reason or another, unpublished and unheard of – well, unheard of by you and I anyway.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…
September Bookshelf
Hi Friends, I have always thought summer was a perfect length. By the time August comes to an end and back to school sales explode in every store, I am always a little sad to say goodbye to summer, but ready to take my sweaters and flannel shirts and boots out of the attic and…
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…
The Little Paris Bookshop
“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…
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…
June Bookshelf
Hello Beautiful People, Summer is almost upon us! Do you know what that means? Longer, warmer days. I hope you get a chance to visit some of your favorite outdoor spots this month and spend time with a good book. Here are three books coming out this month that we’re looking forward to reading: Modern…
The Little Free Library Book
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…