by kristinoakley | Aug 19, 2022 | Books and Movies, For Readers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
Welcome to my Writer’s Book Club. This month I review a little-known young adult dystopian book called The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. In Collins’ novel, one boy and one girl are selected from each region to compete to the death in the Hunger Games. Only...
by kristinoakley | Jul 22, 2022 | Books and Movies, For Readers, Newsletter
Welcome to my writer’s book club! This month I read Peter Clines’ sci-fi horror novel 14 about a young man who rents a cheap apartment in a very strange and mysterious Hollywood building. I picked the book up while vacationing in L.A. a few years ago and am glad...
by kristinoakley | Jun 24, 2022 | Books and Movies, For Readers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
Welcome to my writer’s book club! This month I review Red Rising by New York Times Bestselling Author Pierce Brown. Red Rising takes place 1,000 years in the future and successfully blends elements of dystopia, science fiction, fantasy, and Greek mythology....
by kristinoakley | May 27, 2022 | Books and Movies, For Readers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
Welcome to my Writer’s Book Club! This month’s selection is the New York Times Bestseller Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Butler was a renowned novelist and, in 1955, she became the first science fiction writer to win the MacArthur Fellowship. In Parable...
by kristinoakley | Apr 28, 2022 | Books and Movies, For Readers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
Welcome to my Writer’s Book Club! This month I’ve selected the New York Times Bestseller The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. I’d read and liked Haig’s International Bestseller How to Stop Time, so I decided to buy his latest book for my mom. When my mother...
by kristinoakley | Mar 17, 2022 | Books and Movies, For Readers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
In this month’s Writer’s Book Club, I discuss Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of Remains of the Day. Never Let It Go takes place in England in the late 1990s at a boarding school called Hailsham. The...
