Schoolyard Schadenfreude It takes a particular kind of author to shine a light into the intricate, often insensible, inner workings of parental/school politics, but Gill Hornby does so with a deft hand. With a clear eye and often a wry smile, Ms. Hornby takes us into the lives of these women and lets us see […]
Happy Friday, and welcome to the latest installment of our monthly feature where we review Children’s books. The Llama Llama Series By Anna Dewdney Amazon / B&N / Indiebound / Goodreads Llama, Llama red pajama waiting, waiting for his mama. Mama isn’t coming yet. Baby Llama starts to fret. In this infectious rhyming read-aloud, Baby […]
Holly Black’s twist on vampirism, perhaps with more pathology than psychology, brings a fresh new look to the popular mythos of vampirism. I very much enjoyed the effort and thought that went into the world building Ms. Black created and how it was both familiar and fresh at the same time. At it’s heart, this […]
Unbreakable by Elizabeth Norris continues the story of Janelle Tenner and thank goodness for that! When we leave her at the end of Unraveling her world has fallen to pieces around her. People she loves are dead, the world is in chaos and the boy she loves, Ben Michaels, has just left to go back to his […]
Pushy: As soon as I learned that David Sedaris had written another book, I couldn’t wait to read it! There’s something so sly and wry and undeniably entertaining about his prose, particularly the way he can bare his soul so fully to the reader and still maintain a self-effacing humor throughout! And when I learned […]
Pushy: Ahh…Jane and David. It was with immense pleasure that I delved back into the world that Mary Robinette Kowal built for them. Magical is such an inadequate word for the rich, lush, amazing alternate history Regency era world of the Glamourist Histories, and Without A Summer is as exceedingly enchanting as its predecessors. Heather: Stepping back […]
Femme Fatale The S-Word by Chelsea Pitcher is a uniquely refreshing take on the YA genre, one in which the ethos of noir fiction is intimately blended with the contemporary frailties and foibles of the under 18 set. Dark and definitely mysterious, the story is told through the perspective of Angela Lake, the cynical and deeply […]
How Peculiar…. Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children is an unusual book. Told in the compelling voice of Jacob Portman, this story is one part dark fairy tale, one part creepy campfire story, but 100% fascinating. The story starts with tragedy and madness, heavy stuff no matter how deftly handled, and from there progresses into […]
Heather: I loved the Beautiful Creatures series, so I was very excited to see what the authors would write on their own. Margaret Stohl has delivered a beautifully written dystopian with fantastic world building and interesting characters. Pushy: So true! After reading her first series I was intrigued to see where she would go next. […]
NA meets Supernatural I was so excited to get the chance to read this book as part of TLC’s book tour! I absolutely loved the premise! Sort of X-Men meets Girls, Discovery introduces us to a world where comic book heroes are real and heightened drama lies just below the surface of the mundane. In […]
Dark Fairy Tales It’s no secret that we Bookworms are fans of Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha series. So when I saw that she had published two novellas set in the Grisha series world, I snapped them up. I was thrilled to find they were as just as edgy and dreamy as the novels whose world they […]
Happy Saturday, and welcome to the latest installment of our monthly feature where we review Children’s books. The Bell’s Ringing; School’s in Session Quirk Books is a publisher I’ve learned to trust for books that epitomize their name; edgy, different but always thoroughly enjoyable. And the Tales from Lovecraft Middle School series is a perfect […]
Happy Friday, and welcome to the latest installment of our monthly feature where we review Children’s books. When I saw this book on the Macmillan catalog I knew it was a no brainer for me and my (now) 7-year-old daughter to read together. Just like Kelsey, my daughter loves to solve a good mystery and we love […]