Tag: book-reviews
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Book Review: Life As We Knew it.
Book Review: Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. “I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it’s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.” I actually bought the third book in this series first and realized quickly it wasn’t book…
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Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher: A Review
Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher is a witchy, magical retelling of Jane Eyre. It features a gifted healer named Jane Aire who takes a position at Thornfield Hall, a cursed estate with a mysterious and reclusive master, Edward Rochester. Full disclosure: I had no idea this was a retelling of Jane Eyre. I’ve…
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Addy and Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Through the weeds and reeds, past swampy ditches with the small, beady eyes of gators, stood a trailer park beside a murky pond filled with dragonflies and turtles. With salt twisting through the Gulf wind, a young girl’s imagination grew wild in the summer. With her fingertips grazing the soft paper of a new book,…
Coushatta LaRue 