The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living (one of our August picks) is Louise Miller’s first novel, the result of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program. The reader is introduced to Olivia “Livvy” Rawlings, a pastry chef at an exclusive Boston club, during a rather tumultuous period in her life. She is not happy in Boston, she…
Dear Bookworms, With this sixth installment of the Thursday Next series, Jasper Fforde delves once again into the complexities of the BookWorld – and shakes up all the rules. To begin with, the novel opens immediately upon an account of the BookWorld’s transformation from an interstellar layout to a terrestrial one with free-floating landmasses. Although…
Happy October, my fellow readers. I know it’s cliché, but the crisp, beautiful weather of October always makes me think of that passage in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables: “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” This month, we’re excited to read the following books: Small Great Things…
My grandparents gave me the second Harry Potter book for Christmas when I was 12. I hadn’t yet read the first book, but I was so excited to open that gift. One, I now needed the first book and, two, I could finally join everyone I knew who was reading and loving Harry Potter. I got…
On the day you’re to be suspended from school, you don’t expect your mother to take you to the museum. In that museum, you don’t expect to fall in love with a redheaded girl who is wandering galleries with an old man. Nor do you expect a bomb to go off when you’re trying to…
Dear Bookworms, The famous city of Paris holds many allures, but for expat Kristen Beddard, it was missing one key element: kale. Try as she might, after moving to the City of Light with her husband for his work, she was unable to locate this one vegetable that has come to represent home and comfort…
“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils” – You’ve Got Mail Happy September! Here are three books we’re looking forward to this month: The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman (available 09/06/16)* The Bookshop on the Corner by…
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…
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…