Hello Beautiful People, Recently, Absolutely True Lies by Rachel Stuhler came across my desk. Here’s the official book blurb: Holly Gracin, a fledgling writer in Los Angeles, stumbles into what could be the gig of a lifetime—writing a young starlet’s tell-all “autobiography”—but soon discovers the secrets lurking behind tween icon Daisy May Dixson’s squeaky clean…
Hello Beautiful People, I once had a student who needed me to walk on the right side of him in the hallways. I once had a different student who couldn’t look at the red squiggle of the spell check indicator without having a panic attack. I recently directed a musical at a high school on…
“If a character sits in a book and no one reads it, is he truly alive? As your eyes move across the pages, as you heard the story in your head, the characters moved for you, spoke for you, felt for you. So you see, it’s quite difficult to know who owns a story. Is…
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…
“You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.” – p. 387 Hello Readers! What is it like to be invisible? What is it like to live in the shadow of someone else? What is it like to be held to higher standard because of the shortcomings of…
“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 Beautiful People, After waiting almost a month on the library, I finally obtained and read a copy of Sara Gruen’s At the Water’s Edge (one of our March picks). Many of you are probably familiar with her Water For Elephants that was adapted for the screen in 2011 starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon….
“As a culture, we’ve collectively bought into this lie that work has to be miserable.” – p. 5 Remember when you were in elementary school and older relatives asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up? Some of you may have said a teacher, a lawyer, a veterinarian, or a basketball player….