They used to be close; friends and maybe, before he left, on the road to becoming something more. But after his father’s death, Paul Fraser was forced to leave his Highlands home and could only keep in contact with Juliette Andrews through letters and rare visits home. Their letters brought them even closer until, Paul thought he’d earned the right to ask the baron’s daughter to become his wife – although he was only a doctor, with no noble titles to his name, he was […]
Suggestipe: Read this book
I assume, at this point, that just about everyone on the Internets has seen at least one episode of My Drunk Kitchen, starring the lovely Hannah Hart. If you have not, may I suggest this banana bread episode, also starring Grace Helbig? (“We’ll find out!”) But, let’s just assume that you’ve seen an episode or two, or that -if you haven’t – my explanation that MDK is basically about a rambly, philosophizing, goofily drunk host who hangs out with her friends, LOVES TO USE PUNS, […]
“If I were in charge of the world, you wouldn’t have lonely.”
In order to pass on my love of poetry to my niblings (and expand our horizons a tad bit beyond Where The Sidewalk Ends), my niece and I have recently spent some time exploring the 810s at our local library. One of our very first finds – and one of the biggest hits – is Judith Viorst’s If I Were in Charge of The World (and other worries). For my niece and I, the best kind of poetry is nonsense poetry – we’ve spent a […]
Science fiction young adult Jane Austen. It’s good, I promise
Laziness makes me resort to the Goodreads synopsis once again: It’s been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology. Elliot North has always known her place in the world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family’s estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists are jumpstarting the wheel of […]