Although Sarah’s Key is over a decade old, it seems fairly new – as if I first heard about it the other day. It’s been on my to-read list for years but try as I might, I can’t possibly dent that continually growing pile without major life changes, a lottery win, a nanny, and limitless…
Hag-Seed is the fourth book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series published by Hogarth Press in which popular authors pen their versions of selected Shakespearean plays. In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson tackles The Winter’s Tale. In Shylock Is My Name, Howard Jacobson re-imagines The Merchant of Venice. Pulitzer Prize winning author Anne Tyler takes on…
End of Days is the final book in the Penryn & the End of Days trilogy by Susan Ee, a post-apocalyptic, supernatural set of thrillers for young adults. In this dark urban fantasy, angels of Judeo-Christian lore herald the foretold apocalypse and have wreaked havoc on the earth, killing and destroying wherever possible. Unlike your…
World After is the second book in the wildly popular Penryn & the End of Days series by Susan Ee. This young adult fantasy is set in a post-apocalyptic United States after the world was essentially destroyed by warrior angels who heralded the coming judgement day. There will be spoilers on the first book, so…
Angelfall is the first in a series of young adult post-apocalyptic fiction where world destruction has been caused by an army of warrior angels. This novel was a Cyblis Award Nominee for Fantasy & Science Fiction but its popularity truly spread by word of mouth. The first book in the Penryn & the End of Days…
Don’t Dilly Dally, Silly Sally is a rhyming picture book for young children that provides a lesson on the importance of punctuality. Written by Marc Ferrari and colorfully illustrated by Felipe Diaz Huarnez, this charming tale easily captures the attention of children. It follows Sally who can’t be bothered to get ready on time. She is…
First published in Spain in 2001 by award-winning Carlos Ruiz Zafón, his first adult novel became an instant success and has been translated into several languages. The English edition, translated by Lucia Graves and published a few years later, is still a bestselling book. With almost 300,000 ratings on GoodReads and an average rating of 4.24 out…
While DC had the Million Women March and other major cities across the states filled with women, Portsmouth held the NH Women’s March for Civil Rights in solidarity. Occupy New Hampshire Seacoast expected hundreds to show up – instead, they got thousands. It was more of a rally than a march. There wasn’t much marching….
Traci L. Slatton is an indie author who I’m familiar with after having read several of her novels. I’ve zipped through her After Trilogy books (post-apocalyptic scifi) and Broken, a WWII fantasy involving angels, the latter of which has an end that I still haven’t quite recovered from. Although straight romance is not within my normal reading zone,…
Patrick Ness is the author of the extremely popular Chaos Walking series which I adored. When I saw his book A Monster Calls, I immediately shelved it as a book I would eventually read, but never did get around to it – until recently. I picked it up when I saw this fantastic movie trailer. I…