by Laura DeNooyer | Sep 20, 2022 | Book Reviews
My childhood daydreams of castles and princesses led me not only to Grimm, Lang, Perrault, and Anderson fairy tales, but to novel-length YA tales. Even as an adult, I’ve enjoyed the fantasy worlds of Just Ella (Margaret Peterson Haddix) and Ella Enchanted (Gail Carson...
by Laura DeNooyer | Sep 13, 2022 | Book Reviews
Like many young girls do, author Olivia Rae claims she “spent her school days dreaming of knights, princesses and far away kingdoms.” Nowadays, she writes about them. Visiting European castles and forts in her travels provided additional inspiration, resulting in two...
by Laura DeNooyer | Sep 6, 2022 | Book Reviews
Is choosing career over family—or a potential spouse—sometimes the better choice? If your spouse is number one, what else are you sacrificing? Are you giving up the very thing that serves the community and provides the better good for all? What if you’re...
by Laura DeNooyer | Aug 30, 2022 | Book Reviews
I’ll never forget the first time I saw Alfred Hitchcock’s horror movie The Birds (1963). In the early 1970s, I was just a kid when it played on TV one night. The din of thousands of squawking birds on the wing grew as they approached, hovered, darkened the sky, then...
by Laura DeNooyer | Aug 23, 2022 | Book Reviews
I’ve only been on the Appalachian Trail once, and that was decades ago. As I briefly mentioned earlier (All That We Carried), my hubby Tim and I took a few of his male high school students down south for a camping trip. Part of that involved camping in Virginia...
by Laura DeNooyer | Aug 16, 2022 | Book Reviews
A former student of mine, originally a British immigrant, credits me for teaching him how to read in fifth grade. Prior to that, he struggled with reading. Years later, the day he became an American citizen, he called to tell me personally, and thanked me for teaching...
