Dear Bookworms, With the printing of Their Fractured Light at the end of last year, co-authors Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner have concluded their exciting YA series the Starbound trilogy. This action packed series is a layered series, much like the highly-acclaimed Lunar Chronicles, where each novel introduces a new set of characters and follows…
Dear Bookworms, One of my favorite things about reading is how it communicates ideas and allows those thoughts to be shared across boundaries. A written work can be discovered by two people living in different parts of the world, who have entirely different tastes, backgrounds and life experiences, but both of whom will stumble across…
Dear Bookworms, Picking up fourteen years since we last adventured with literary detective Thursday Next, First Among Sequels finds our beloved heroine a bit older but no less embroiled in the complicated issues of real-world and BookWorld literature. Her role as the Last Bastion of Common Sense within the BookWorld’s Council of Genres, means…
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…
Dear Bookworms, Hundreds of articles have been written on the benefits of reading. Studies have proved it, and librarians have preached it. Reading is an activity like no other, offering the benefits of entertainment, brain development, logical reason skills, expanded vocabulary, and more, and other, ad infinitum. But if you’re on this website, reading this…
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…
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…
Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Ten of The 12 Days of Books! An army of grumpy elves, two small Christmas angels, one invisible reindeer with a marzipan addiction and a whole lot of Christmas magic, that’s what you can expect from Cornelia Funke’s When Santa Fell to Earth. A magical Christmas story for children, this…
Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Seven of The 12 Days of Books! Today’s highlight is trip down memory lane for any girl who grew up in the 80s and 90s when the American Girl dolls hit the scene! The Pleasant Company’s original five girls: Felicity, Kirsten, Addy, Samantha, and Molly captured the hearts of young…
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. …