Each week, Bookstr gives you a look at some of the best novels in a particular genre for your continued reading list. Today, we’ll be recommending five YA novels that go from historical fiction to highly personal drama to an Alice in Wonderland-esqe novel to high fantasy. 5-The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett Image Via Goodreads Jenn Bennett is an award-winning author of young adult books, including Alex, Approximately, Starry Eyes, and Serious Moonlight. What’s she got next for us? Well, her September 10th release is certainly something. Image Via Amazon In 1937, seventeen-year-old …
According to Sesame Street Magazine, October 15th is National Grouch Day—a day for all Grouches to celebrate their way of life. Image Via Facebook Since Sesame Street Magazine taught me everything I know, we’re going to celebrate National Grouch Day the only way we here at Bookstr know how—by making lists. 6-Ebenezer Scrooge Image Via The Imaginative Conservative The quintessential grouch, Ebenezer Scrooge is a cheap old miser who brings misery wherever he goes. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, …
Autumn is here. It’s getting cold outside, the sun is sinking below the horizon earlier and earlier. The sand on the beach is easier to walk across barefoot, yes, but the water is freezing. All the pools are closing, all the water parks are closed. It’s depressing, but think about the bright side: all the leaves are changing, giving us a rainbow of colors. And just as the leaves fall, we’d like to fall into a great book. Check out Bookstr’s Three to Read, the three books we’ve picked for you to read this week! OUR HOT PICK Movies (And …
Back in July, we here at Bookstr reported that a fist edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone had sold at auction for £28,500, or, $34,650.73! Finishing that article, we said that “Sadly, you can’t get this copy anymore since, well, you know, it’s been bought for a gigantic amount of money” but turns out we were wrong! The long and short of it is that back in the day, when J.K. Rowling wrote the first of seven books (seven? Wow!), it was entitled Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and later re-titled Harry Potter and the …
I remember a time when Bob Dylan winning the Noble Prize for Literature was a controversial because “he doesn’t write books! Well, he wrote that one book, but he writes songs!” Oh, how times have changed. Image Via Australian Peter Handke was born December 6, 1942. He’s an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, film director and screewnwriter and a poet. He does a lot of writing, basically. He’s jumped into the mainstream in the 1960s with the play Publikumsbeschimpfung (Offending the Audience) and the novel Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick). In 1971 he wrote about his mother’s …
