One of my favorite things about historical fiction is that it revives the moments in history we forget about. Stories that may seem too small to make the history textbooks but that are unique and interesting in their own ways. Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart, tells the mostly true story of the Kopp …
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So spoiler alert, the original Harry Potter series ends with the words “All was well.” Well psych, Harry is in his 40s now and his son is causing PROBLEMS. The first thing you need to get about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is that it is not a book. A published script of a …
What book made you a reader? Not what was the first book you remember reading or what book is the best book you ever read, but what book made you LOVE to read? That book, that one special book, is the difference between the kids who only read for a grade and the ones who …
Do you have good and bad eyebrow days? I sure do. My eyebrows are high maintenance. They somehow are both too bushy and wild AND too thin in spots at the same time. I guess they are just paying me back for some unfortunate tweezing mishaps over the years. So I use an eyebrow brush, …
Madeline Whitter can’t go outside. She can’t open a window; she can’t have visitors unless they go through extensive decontamination. She is sick and always has been; there is no cure. She is now 18, but won’t be leaving for college. She won’t ever be leaving. Her only friends are her mother and her full …
When I was a kid my favorite make-believe game was pioneers. Maybe it was living in Colorado, growing up on Little House on the Prairie reruns (and of course the books), or maybe it was that we all played way too much Oregon Trail. So if you liked to pretend that you were carrying water …
Author Chris Cleave drew inspiration from his grandparent’s experiences in World War II for his new novel, Everyone Brave is Forgiven. Mary North is an upper class Londoner who is looking for adventure when she signs up to help the war effort. She doesn’t imagine she will be assigned to the far less glamorous task …
Since I get most of my reading material from the public library I sometimes wait a little longer to read new releases. So I am about a year late on last year’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See. The book alternates between Marie-Laure, a young blind girl; and Werner, a young …
Downton Abbey is drawing to a close here in America (the finale has already aired in England) and you may soon have a Dowager Countess-sized hole in your heart. Where will you get your fix for people having romantic misunderstandings in beautiful mansions now? Well lucky for you that’s the plot of like 95% of …
You know what you are getting when you pick up a Kate Morton book. There will be a beautiful house, a mystery and lots of atmosphere. Morton’s new novel, The Lake House, is no exception. Set in Cornwall in the early 1930s, The Lake House tells the story of the Edevane family; whose seemingly idyllic …