Film adaptations can be either great or terrible, depending on who's in control of the project. more often than not, the movies made based off books are actually pretty good, though if you ask a bookworm... the book was better. Obviously. Still, that doesn't mean that film adaptations aren't good. The main reason I feel … Continue reading Top 5 Film Adaptations
Hello, hello everyone! I saw a while ago for one of those ongoing prompt of the day posts that I know most of you do (Top Ten Tuesday, Five on Friday, etc.) that one of the prompts was Top Favorite Opening Lines. Since I'm never one to follow a blogging schedule (I'd like to change … Continue reading Favorite Opening Lines
One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction...Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative London. Their mission: Retrieve … Continue reading Review: The Invisible Library
Last year I did my own Book Awards after seeing a meme saying there should be an award show for books, and I wholeheartedly agreed. There should be. However, since there isn't I've made it a point to do my own book awards each year. My awards for 2020 area little late, but better late … Continue reading 2020 Book Awards
Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie’s greatest triumph … Continue reading Review: The Hand on the Wall
I’m going to start a new series based on things that happen at the library. No one will be named and I won’t be ranting about the things that upset me. The posts will just be the things I find funny that happen while I’m working or I hear about after my day off. Things … Continue reading Weird Happenings at the Library, Vol. 1
The Truly Devious case—an unsolved kidnapping and triple murder that rocked Ellingham Academy in 1936—has consumed Stevie for years. It’s the very reason she came to the academy. But then her classmate was murdered, and her parents quickly pull her out of school. For her safety, they say. She must move past this obsession with … Continue reading Review: The Vanishing Stair
Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. “A place,” he said, “where learning is a game.”Shortly after the school opened, his … Continue reading Review: Truly Devious
One thing that I enjoy the most about the bookish community is just talking to other bookish people. While I'm pretty easygoing about chatting with people about books and whatnot, I haven't made many close friends. I have made one or two, and I'm very glad for them, though I would like to be chatty … Continue reading Novel Nerds Group Chat!
Emma Woodhouse is a genius at math, but clueless about people. After all, people are unreliable. They let you down—just like Emma's sister, Izzy, did this year, when she moved to California for college. But numbers...those you can count on. (No pun intended.)Emma's senior year is going to be all about numbers, and seeing how … Continue reading Review: The Code for Love and Heartbreak
Happy New Year everyone! How happy are you all that it's 2021? I'm just excited for the start of a new year because, aside from the obvious, I love the feeling of being in a new year. I'm not usually one to make resolutions as I'm never able to keep them, but I do like … Continue reading Lucky 13 Reading Challenge
