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…
“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…
“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…
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….
“Happiness is not a destination: Being happy takes constant weeding, a tending of emotions and circumstances as they arise. There’s no happily ever after, or any one person or place that can bring happiness. It takes work to be calm in the midst of turmoil. But releasing the need to control it – well, that’s…
Dear Bookworms, There are some things that only true readers really understand. The delight in the smell of an old book, the thrill over a long-anticipated copy of a favorite author’s newest work, that hollow sense of aimlessness after you’ve finished a long series, or the excitement of discovering a new series and knowing there…
“I’d felt as if life was like a play, and I’d come in at the interval. The rest of the audience knew what was going on, while I was the only one who was mystified by the dialogue. As I got older I worked out that that’s what everyone thought. We were all watching the…
“Love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.” – p. 410 Hello Readers, I have always found historical fiction to be a “hit-or-miss” kind of genre. Some authors are able to capture the essence of a time period or an event the reader is familiar with and go on…