Rachel Reads & Reviews

Author Highlight: Isabel Allende

So I’ve finally read one of the greatest writers of our time, and I have to join the thousands that agree. My mom gifted me with her first, The House of Spirits, and latest books, Violeta respectively and they were beautiful.

rachelbeerwoman

June 7, 2022

Book/Author Highlight

#isabelallende, #magicalrealism, #rachelreads&reviews, #simon&schuster, #thehouseofspirits, #violeta

Can you name this forgotten book series?

This has been driving me crazy. But it’s an elementary school series, think fifth grade, and it features a group of real life kids. Usually different in each book. And their adventures in whatever place the story is set. Like a haunted tour of San Francisco. The Iditorod Trail in Alaska. Disneyland and so forth.…

rachelbeerwoman

June 7, 2022

Uncategorized

#comment, #forgottenbooks, #rachelreads&reviews

The Mortal Instruments Series Lookback

Originally I was going to write one huge post after I finished all of Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter universe books, but as it has been almost four years and I still have two books to go, I figured I should start writing now as I’m forgotting some of my original thoughts after four years. These things…

rachelbeerwoman

June 5, 2022

Rankings, Reviews

#cassandraclare, #cityofashes, #cityofbones, #cityoffallenangels, #cityofglass, #cityofheavenlyfire, #cityoflostsouls, #rachelreads&reviews, #simon&schuster, #themortalinstruments, #theshadowhunterchronicles

Girls on Film Review

Alicia Malone loves classic films and this memoir/film guide (more memoir than film guide though) shines a light on that abudently. As she says, people like to think of their lives as movies. In her case, her life has been influenced by the movies so much she is beginning to wonder if movies imitate life…

rachelbeerwoman

June 4, 2022

Reviews

#filmbooks, #girlsonfilm, #mango, #memoir, #rachelreads&reviews, #tcm

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