Book Review – Lion Down
★★★★ Paw-sitvely amazing book, one of the better environmental fiction books out there, contains a mystery wrapped up in another mystery, like all the other books in the series. Can be read as a stand alone, or with the other books in the series. (Although it’s a cougar, not a lion in the book… )
March Events
Here’s our March schedule. As always, refer to www.turnsandtales.com/events for the most up to date listing.
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
Ms. Wiseman is a relatively new author for me. I hadn’t read anything by her until I ventured through The Orphan Collector which utterly destroyed me. In her latest novel Ms. Wiseman takes us to Willowbrook school. A school in name only. Willowbrook was actually an institution where parents would relieve themselves of the burden of their children should
Mrs. Poe
Given my fascination with history and Poe I obviously was not going to pass up a chance to read about Poe, his wife, his mistress and the friendship the latter two began. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. Arguably one of Poe’s best literary works, the Raven, begins Mrs. Poe, a novel by Lynn
It
Most people know this book by horror writer extraordinaire Stephen King. Young Georgie chases his boat down the street and into the maws of Pennywise. Georgie knows he shouldn’t talk to people who are not known to him, but something draws him into Pennywise’s trap. Georgie is eventually killed by Pennywise leaving the community shattered. Months after Georgie’s
Wayside School is Falling Down
When I was ten, my mother subscribed her voracious reader of a daughter to a kid’s book club. The first box of books contained such classics as Beezus and Ramona, Anne of Green Gables and Nancy Drew. One of my favourites in a latter box, was Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Wayside was built wrong. Instead of classrooms