True confession: I’m a recovering book snob. The situation peaked during undergrad, when half the people in my English classes wore gauzy scarves and prattled insufferably about reading Dante in their leisure time. I played along with Jane Austen movie adaptations, post-modernism, and poetry collections …
Happy hump day, friends! Here are my finds this week. 10 Literary Lessons from Gretchen Rubin This is a guest blog post by Sarah Moore from New Leaf Book Nook on thebookwheelblog.com. I read this post this morning while I …
Coming-of-age stories that are deeply rooted in their physical surroundings have always fascinated me. When I was 10, I read My Side of the Mountain, which is a story about a boy who lives in the hollow of a tree …
What a lovely, lazy Sunday in Minneapolis today! I at least got some laundry done, but now it’s time to focus on all things bookish. Speaking of bookishness, what did you add to your TBR list this week? Here are …
I just out-nerded myself by spending an exorbitant amount of time explaining to my fiance, whilst watching the extended director’s cut of The Fellowship of the Ring, which Lord of the Ring’s characters would go into each Hogwarts house. I …
Listen up, bookish friends: This is one to add to your TBR list. This coming-of-age story is captivating, haunting, and just so real. Cline is a genius at delving into the mind of a young teen in search of recognition and …
I remember reading Katherine Paterson‘s Bridge to Terabithia while on vacation with my family. I was maybe nine years old, and it was far past my bedtime. Tears (and let’s get real: probably snot) soaked my t-shirt, and I woke my …
I read House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Why? Well, it kept popping up on “best of” lists for horror novels, it featured an unorthodox text format that intrigued me, and most importantly, it was on the Buy Two, …
In the fall of 2011, an eighth-grade student of mine wrote a beautiful letter to Ruta Sepetys, the author of Between Shades of Gray, detailing what she’d gleaned from Sepetys’ first novel – the power of perseverance, integrity, and love. Since then, …