by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 21, 2014 | Book Review, Writing for YA
I almost forgot to review this book. I read it several months ago. I figured that I should read such a popular YA book and see what all the fuss is about. With all the buzz about the movie version coming out, I read it in the summer. Since it wasn’t on the...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Dec 7, 2014 | Book Review, Writing
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman I read this Newbery winner, too, though it wasn’t on my Sabbatical reading list. My bucket list for life includes reading every Newbery winner since 1922 when the award was founded, so this year has moved me well...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Nov 4, 2014 | Blog, Book Review
This is one of those books I’m embarrassed I hadn’t read before. That maybe in certain circles, I’d nod as if I’d read it unless asked directly. (Did I do that? I don’t think so, but I might have). When I started it, I was a bit...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 24, 2014 | Blog, Book Review
I’m a huge Irving fan. I don’t even know how many of his books I’ve read. However, sometimes one of these heavy tomes of his leaves me thinking that an editor is probably afraid to hack up one of John Irving’s manuscripts. I thought this one...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 21, 2014 | Book Review
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos Guess you can see I lifted the image off Amazon, huh? THIS has been the singular biggest surprise of all the Newbery books I’ve read so far on Sabbatical. I LOVE this book! First, the protagonist is immediately likeable, and by...
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis | Oct 21, 2014 | Blog, Book Review
This book may not appeal to everyone. The first chapter made me wonder how on earth it won the Newbery. Second chapter, more of the same. By the third chapter, I was mezmerized. Reading this book was like being immersed in a beautiful flowing stream of...
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