Book Reviews

Posted about 8 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with christmas, gifs, gifts, holidays

Is your favorite Christmas movie Gremlins, or Die Hard? Well, we’re here today with 5 gif reasons why your favorite should be Desk Set. For those not yet in the […]

Posted about 8 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with millennials, minimalism

Two of the biggest trends among Millennials in 2017 are de-cluttering our lives (thanks in part to Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up) and becoming more self-sufficient as […]

Posted about 8 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with chicago film festival, french films

Dispatch from Robert @ Westover Hills: Back from my terrific trip to the 53rd Chicago Film Festival and I think the best overall slate (13 films in 4 days!) I […]

Posted about 8 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with haunting, scary

Two of the best books I’ve read this year will haunt me for a long time: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann “History, is a merciless judge.” This […]

Posted about 9 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with banyan tree, setting, trees

It occurred to me recently that I should be keeping track of the trees I encounter, often before leaving the first page, while reading a novel. A strong visual and […]

Posted about 9 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with july, literary vacation, summer

Virginia is hot as blazes in July so why not take a literal, or at least literary, journey to a cooler place? You don’t have to leave to get the […]

Posted about 9 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with finishing books, mitigating risk, Rabbit Cake, worth the risk

Not long ago Goodread put out an infographic about finishing books. In their survey they discovered that somewhere around 38% of people who read will finish a book no matter […]

Posted about 9 years ago by Lisa Crisman

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with futuristic, steampunk

Late summer road trip in your future?  Check out this week’s downloads from SyncAudiobooks for Teens. Three weeks of great titles left for this summer, with two titles each week. […]

Posted about 9 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with childhood, illustrated, ironic, irony

What books from your childhood still have a hold on you as an adult? Do you think of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie every time something in your […]

Posted about 9 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with authors, Girls of Summer, interview, Rita Williams-Garcia

On Wednesday, June 21st, Richmond Young Writers got the opportunity to ask Newbery Honor Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia all about becoming an author.  Lucky for you, we’ve snagged a recording […]