THE TWITS - Netflix, 2025 - The Twits was the first Roald Dahl book I ever encountered. I was a beginning elementary teacher at the time and found it at a bookstore when it was first published. I loved it and found that my grade five students were enchanted by Dahl’s wacky twisted humor. One …
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AND THE COMEDY JUST KEEPS COMING
The Grand High Imperial Twitterbug (GHIT), His Highness, Prez for Life and World’s Greatest Comedian: the one, THE ONLY, Ronald Rump, is ON FIRE right now with some of the GREATEST COMEDY ROUTINES ever achieved! Portland is a WAR ZONE! Wow, that had us rolling in the aisle, but sending troops to stamp out …
THE BLACKTONGUE THIEF BY CHRISTOPHER BUEHLMAN
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman, Tor Publishing 2021 - Introducing Kinch Na Shannack, a lowly member of the Takers Guild, born in that part of Buehlman’s fictional world where the inhabitants are distinguished by, and looked down on for, their black tongues. The Takers Guild is a collective of criminals that apprentice and supply …
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THE COVENANT OF WATER BY ABRAHAM VERGHESE
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, 2023 - This ‘Oprah’s book club choice’ novel is mostly focussed on three generations of a family starting in the early 1900’s. The setting is generally in the rural town of Parambil, located in the state of Kerala in the south western portion of India. For …
THE GERMAN MIDWIFE BY MANDY ROBOTHAM
The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham, HarperCollins, 2018 - Imagine a midwife, sometime in 1943, who has been sent to Ravensbruck (one of the notorious Nazi labor camps) not because she’s Jewish, but because she’s a politically unreliable German who provided services to the Jews in the ghetto. By 1944 she is forced to provide …
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES BY SHELBY VAN PELT
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES BY SHELBY VAN PELT, Ecco and HarperCollins, 2022 - Set in the Puget Sound area of Northern Washington state in the small fictional town of Sowell Bay, Remarkably Bright Creatures is a story about two lost souls being connected by Marcellus, a sixty pound giant Pacific octopus who has been trapped in …
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WEYWARD BY EMILIA HART
Weyward by Emilia Hart, St. Martin’s Press - 2023 - Weyward is a novel with elements of fantasy that tells the story of three women, all connected in lineage, all with a supernatural connection to nature and who all lead lives that are impacted by violent men. The first is Altha, living in the early …
MRS VAN GOGH BY CAROLINE CAUCHI
Mrs Van Gogh by Caroline Cauchi, Harper Collins 2023 - In 1990, Vincent Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold in a NY auction for $82.5 million. In Wikipedia’s current list of the 120 most expensive paintings ever sold, Van Gogh is listed nine times and he’s now considered one of the greatest painters in …
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