Book Reviews

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 […]

Posted about 9 years ago by Laura Price

Posted in Book Reviews

Whether it was required summer reading for AP English or Freshman Core class (an interdisciplinary mashup of lit, economics and anthropology), I cannot be sure. What I do recall is […]

Posted about 9 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with book reviews, LGBT, Pride Month

I was delighted to discover that the author of the book I was reading last week was also one of the masterminds behind the joyful idea of Drag Queen Story […]

Posted about 9 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews

I somehow ended up with these two curiously linked books at the same time without first realizing the connection they shared. Content and style wise they are quite different, but […]

Posted about 9 years ago by Laura Price

Posted in Book Reviews

I once worked for one of the big box bookstores. During training I was told that, when helping a customer find a potential purchase, I should put the book, movie, […]

Posted about 9 years ago by Laura Price

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with graphic novels, reviews

I am just about half-way through an excellent graphic novel called “The Best We Could Do.” It’s the memoir of a Vietnamese refugee named Thi Bui, who recounts the struggles […]

Posted about 10 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations

It appears as though one of my favorites, The Book of Strange New Things, has been adapted into an Amazon series pilot: Oasis. The single episode offering has already diverted pretty sharply […]

Posted about 10 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews

Have I told you to run right out and get the highly anticipated first novel of acclaimed short story writer George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo, yet? Well, consider yourself told. […]

Posted about 10 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews

After many years of “bloggering”, the RPL Staff Picks Blog will be moving to the RVAlibrary.org website during #NationalLibraryWeek (April 9th-15th). We’ll be on break this week while we make […]