The first Maureen O’Hara movie I saw in was Disney’s 1961 hit, The Parent Trap with Haley Mills and Brian Keith. I have seen that movie at least a dozen times (and that is likely an understatement). I remember watching it as a kid and being completely mesmerized by O’Hara’s character, Maggie. This was the…
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…
One week ago I was invited to see Small Mouth Sounds. Small Mouth Sounds, written by Beth Wohl and directed by Rachel Chavkin, is about six strangers who flee from the city to a silent retreat in the woods. It’s awkward. It’s funny. It’s sad. It’s charming. It’s amazing what happens when words and voice…
Lately, I have been a sucker for World War One and World War Two historical fiction. If the description of the book promises a story about strong female friendships, I cannot get it off the shelf fast enough. This recent obsession led me to pick up Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly (one of our April…
Finding Dory is now out in theaters. The sequel to the beloved Disney classic, Finding Nemo, Finding Dory takes us on a journey to find the family of Dory (Ellen DeGeneres). Dory sets out on this adventure with her best buds, Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo (Hayden Rolence), and meets an assortment of characters along…
“If there was one thing that defined adolescence it was hysterical laughter. You never laughed like that again. In adolescence the brutal realization that the world and life were completely absurd made you laugh until you couldn’t catch your breath, whereas later in life it would only result in a weary sigh.” – p. 60…
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…
In her latest novel, Sweet Lamb of Heaven, (one of our May picks) Lydia Millet provides a first-person account of a mother (Anna) and daughter (Lena) on the run from an unfaithful, uninterested husband. However, this is no ordinary “run-away-with-child-from-bad-husband” kind of story. No, Millet added another layer. Shortly after Lena was born, Anna began…
“Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.” – p. 23 I found a copy of The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott (one of our May picks) on the thrift shelf at the library. The book was thin and in excellent condition. I was intrigued by the title and read the description…
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…