Book reviews
5 Twisted Fairy Tales
Neverland. The Enchanted Forest. Ever After. They’re nice vacation spots, but you wouldn’t want a permanent residence in any of those locations. Don’t believe it? Pick up any of these titles and take an armchair tour of the otherworlds.
The Changeling by Philippa Gregory
With the first book in her Order of Darkness series, Philippa Gregory sets a tale of romance, intrigue, and Inquisition in the startling and delightful ambiance of pre-Enlightenment Europe.
January First by Michael Schofield
By the time January Schofield is two years old, she can do multiplication and division problems, knows the periodic table by heart, loves to read, and has imaginary friends that tell her to hurt herself and others.
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
In The Paris Wife, Paula McLain re-imagines the marriage of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Johnson as wildly romantic and bleakly tragic -- and in doing so, makes us want to read more Hemingway.
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
In 1995, Cheryl Strayed – a hiker with little experience – made a drastic decision to traverse the Pacific Crest Trail alone from the western edge of the Mojave desert in Southern California to the Oregon/Washington border.
