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...
by kristinoakley | Feb 17, 2022 | Books and Movies, For Readers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
Welcome to my Writer’s Book Club! Once a month, I’ll review a book and discuss how the book has influenced my writing. This month I’ve selected Station Eleven, a National Book Award Finalist, by Emily St. John Mandel which has also been made into an...
by kristinoakley | Jan 20, 2022 | Books and Movies, For Readers, Writer's Book Club
Welcome to the first installment of my monthly book club! This month’s book is Scythe, a young-adult dystopian novel written by Neal Shusterman which won The Michael L. Printz Award for exemplifying literary excellence in young adult literature. Scythe is set in...
