Twenty Percent True

This week's novel is The Girl from Everywhere , time travel fantasy by Heidi Heilig.  This was recommended to me by NPR's list of th...

In reading to my son lately, I keep coming across couplets that only work if "again" rhymes with "rain."  I slow down an...

This week's novel is the appropriately timed The Handmaid's Tale , the women's rights dystopia by Margaret Atwood.  I had the ch...

Wait.  It's Friday?  What happened?  Where did my week go?  Welp, here's a late book review. This week's novel is The Dark Day...

This week, I'm talking about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , by Jack Thorne, based on the story by  J ohn Tiffany  and  J.K. Rowling...

I'm struggling this week with a title for the dragon book.  I've noticed that a gripping title is the fastest track to getting a bo...

Coming back from the holiday hiatus, we start the year off with  Spontaneous , a young adult novel about spontaneous combustion by Aaron Sta...