Marisa de los Santos’ Love Walked In owes its heritage to classic romantic movies, though it’s not, I assure you, a romance novel. It’s more a novel about love – how it happens, how it doesn’t, what it does to us, and what we do for it.
Billy Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words is subtitled “A Writer’s Guide to Getting It Right.” You should learn something critical from this: namely, that if you’re not a writer, and you don’t care much about words in their most accurate usages, you won’t care much about this book. I, myself, loved it.
When one character accuses another of being a “horrible little…rodent…[a] nasty little vermin!” in Michael Hoeye’s Time Stops for No Mouse, on some level, there’s a bit of truth to it. That’s because this delightful middle-grade book is populated by mice, rats, moles, squirrels, minks, and other assorted furry creatures.
Shannon Hale’s Princess Academy can most easily be described as a take on the “princess tale,” wherein it is possible for a common young woman to marry the prince. But it’s so much more than that.
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