Books and Chocolate

I've been a big Wharton fan for a few years now -- I'd never read anything by her in high school or college, then I got completely h...

Another Newbery winner, an odd one. I was a little apprehensive about this, because my good friend and fellow book blogger  Amanda really d...

I'm sort of sorry I read this book. I probably should have read The Invisible Man instead, but this one just sort of jumped off the she...

Newbery Count 36/89 A couple of winners, in every sense of the word. A Year Down Yonder, the 2001 Newbery Medal winner, is the sequel to ...

Wow, I did not hate this book. Shocking!  That is a terrible way to begin a review, but seriously, I am not a fan of Jane Austen fan fict...

Newbery Count : 34/89 Now,  this is   a Newbery-worthy book.  Wow. And why did it take me so long to read it? I was a little apprehensiv...

I don't know what I expected from this book.  I like historical fiction, and some of my most beloved Newbery winners are historicals-- I...

Montmorency is a thief.  A common criminal, doing time in one of Victorian London's notorious prison in 1875. But what makes him a diffe...

Recently, I've been reading a lot about the Newbery Award winners.  Yes, I did read this year's prizewinner -- Rebecca Stead's W...

People of the Book  is a lot of things. It has a mystery, historical fiction from several eras, Jewish history, and strained mother/daughter...