Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross Review (And How You Can Be Flown Out to the Movie Premiere!)

I’m really happy that my face-to-face book club chose to read Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross this past month otherwise I’m sure I would have read it later rather than sooner and it’s a book that I’m thrilled to add to my list of great historical fiction reads. There are so many different plot [...]

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

I read Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, the 1998 Newbery Award winner, in my ongoing project to read all of the Newbery books. Set in the 1930′s during the great depression in the dust bowl of Oklahoma, Out of the Dust is told as a diary in free verse form, a style of [...]

On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck

On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck is a really wonderful book.  Richard Peck is one of the most loved authors of our time and it’s certainly for good reason.  I loved everything about this book.   I was drawn into the story immediately with the first page: Before the war . . . [...]

Thank You to My March Visitors – Let’s Spotlight a Few!

Thank you to everybody who stopped by and left comments on the Maw Books Blog this past month!  I don’t think I could keep blogging without the response, so you definitely keep me going.  At the end of every month, I highlight a few other book bloggers that I think you should visit! Ali from [...]

Butter Bean Cookies from Shana Burg’s Debut Novel, A Thousand Never Evers

So my husband and I were grocery shopping at a store that we had never shopped at before.  We were there for an hour going around the perimeter of the store looking at all the cool foods our other grocery store (which I LOVE) doesn’t carry.  It almost felt like a date albeit the two [...]