Rachel Reads & Reviews

A Reason for Hope Review

I have to tell a sort of funny story but when I skimmed the summary, I really skimmed. I thought this was a true, nonfictional story about a rape sruvivor, Tessa, her lawyer, Will and his comfort dog, Hope as they fight to put her rapist in jail. While falling in love by the way.…

rachelbeerwoman

June 3, 2022

Reviews

#areasonforhope, #kensingtonbooks, #kristinvonkreisler, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction

Book Highlight: Suite Scarlett

This was the first book I read in the middle school library, and I have lked it ever since. It’s not too groundbreaking, it has the rather generic coming of age story of a teenage girl. Only hers is that she and the rest of their family are trying to save their dying hotel. It…

rachelbeerwoman

June 2, 2022

Book/Author Highlight

#maureenjohnson, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #scholastic, #suitescarlett, #YA

Book Highlight: Unbecoming

This heartwarming YA novel explores three generations of women, and the secrets that burden them and twist their relationship with their daughters over the years.

rachelbeerwoman

June 1, 2022

Book/Author Highlight

#jennydownham, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #scholastic, #unbecoming, #YA

Stephanie Plum #6-10 ReRead

Finally, I got around to reading #6-10 in the Stephanie Plum series, and wow, thngs happen.

rachelbeerwoman

May 31, 2022

Book Suggestions

#hardeight, #hotsix, #janetevanovich, #ninebigones, #rachelreads&reviews, #sevenup, #simon&schuster, #stephanieplum, #tenbigones

Book Highlight: The Lucky Ones

This informative, passionate memoir follows Jenny Brown, founder and owner of Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary as she delves into her journey into animal rights, particularly farm animals and veganism. Beginning at age 10 when she was diagnosed with cancer, she had to have her leg amputated. Her mother sought to ease the pain a little…

rachelbeerwoman

May 30, 2022

Book/Author Highlight

#animalbooks, #animalrights, #houghtonmifflin, #jennybrown, #memoir, #nonfiction, #rachelreads&reviews, #theluckyones

Animals books for Kindergarteners

Little Pink Pup by Johanna Kerby A Baby Book for Willy Bob the Squirrel by Herbert A. Libby Tiger The Monarch Butterfly Who Couldn’t Fly bt Tony Viehmann Since I’m not an official children’s book critic, I won’t say much about the sentence structure and its contribution to reader’s comprehension rather I chose these for…

rachelbeerwoman

May 29, 2022

Book Suggestions

#ababybookforwillybobthesquirrel, #animalbooks, #herberta.libby, #johannakerby, #kindergartenbooks, #littlepinkpup, #putnam'ssons, #rachelreads&reviews, #tigerthemonarchbutterflywhocouldn'tfly, #tonyviehmann

Did you know. . .

These Disney movies were based on books. And I’m not talking about the classic fairytale princesses but. . . Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Felix Salten The Rescuers by Margery Sharp (this was actually a series) 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith (also has a sequel) Just a fun thing that I discovered at…

rachelbeerwoman

May 28, 2022

Book Suggestions

#101dalmatians, #animalbooks, #antiquebooks, #bambialifeinthewoods, #disney, #dodiesmith, #felixsalten, #kidfiction, #margerysharp, #nostalgia, #rachelreads&reviews, #therescuers

Antique Reads: A Hermit’s Wild Friends

Or Eighteen Years in the Wilderness by Mason A. Walton is a perfect book for those who enjoy Wild Animals I Have Known, Walden or any nature books. It’s pretty self-explanatory as Mason writes in his intro that he went out to a log cabin in the country for stress relief from city life much…

rachelbeerwoman

May 27, 2022

Book Suggestions

#ahermit'swildfriends, #animalbooks, #antiquebooks, #masona.walton, #nature

Antique Books: Shirley Temple’s Heidi

Well to continue from yesterday’s question on movie novelizations, I introduce the novelization of the Shirely Temple movie, Heidi. Obviously based on the original Heidi books, it is a decent retelling keeping the major plot points in utilizing language that 9-12 year olds would easily understand. The highlight of the book, of course, is the…

rachelbeerwoman

May 26, 2022

Book Suggestions

#antiquebooks, #biography, #heidi, #johnfkasson, #rachelreads&reviews, #shirleytemple, #shirleytempleedition, #thelittlegirlwhofoughtthegreatdepression

Movie Novelizations

What is the point of them? To read them before the movie? But what if you don’t want to get spoiled? To read them after the movie to. . . relive it? But you can just rewatch it. So really, does anyone know the point of them? I mean I know the company’s point is…

rachelbeerwoman

May 25, 2022

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#movienovelizations, #rachelreads&reviews, #thoughts