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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Blubber is the story of a girl who must decide whether to follow the crowd or not. We begin in a town in Pennsylvania where our storyteller is Jill Brenner. She is in the fifth Grade and is part of a clique that includes the most popular girl in the class named Wendy. Wendy and …
I fell into this trilogy by Margaret Atwood completely by accident. I was out with a friend who was in a rush. I wanted to browse but I was informed that there was no time for such shenanigans. So, I barrelled through the store, grabbing what I could. Oryx and Crake was one of those books. I’m …