Each week during our April Book of the Month, we're featuring a different book from author Lisa Schroeder. This week, we're focusing on her Middle Grade book It's Raining Cupcakes. Let's start the week by telling you more about the book: Twelve-year-old isabel is dying to get out of Oregon. She spends her free time... Continue Reading →
Each week during our April Book of the Month, we're featuring a different book from author Lisa Schroeder. This week, we're focusing on her Middle Grade book It's Raining Cupcakes. Let's start the week by telling you more about the book: Twelve-year-old isabel is dying to get out of Oregon. She spends her free time... Continue Reading →
Creative Writing Prompt #25 Sound Your Yawp Earlier today, we introduced you to the barbaric yawp as it's presented in Dead Poets Society. In this life-changing film, Professor Keating makes Todd Anderson stand before his classmates and create a poem as he stares at a picture of Walt Whitman. And with his eyes closed, under... Continue Reading →
We're launching a new segment here at Novel Novice called Buzzworthy Books ... this is where we'll talk about newly released or upcoming releases that are getting lots of good buzz. We may not have checked them out ourselves yet, but there's so much chatter about them, we can't ignore the buzz. For our first... Continue Reading →
We're launching a new segment here at Novel Novice called Buzzworthy Books ... this is where we'll talk about newly released or upcoming releases that are getting lots of good buzz. We may not have checked them out ourselves yet, but there's so much chatter about them, we can't ignore the buzz. For our first... Continue Reading →
Once again, there are several newcomers on this week's New York Times best sellers lists, including Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles and Classy by Derek Blasberg. Will Grayson, Will Grayson is in its second week on the list and is getting major buzz. Anyone read it yet? What did you think? CHAPTER BOOKS This Week  Weeks... Continue Reading →
One of yesterday's National Poetry Month posts wasn't about a book or a poet, per se, but about a movie: Dead Poets Society. We continue with a little more on that topic today... In this magnificent film, Professor Keating (Robin Williams) dares his students to call him "O Captain! My Captain!" That title is the... Continue Reading →
Creative Writing Prompt #24 Carpe Diem We're talking about the movie Dead Poets Society this weekend. In this film full of poetry from Tennyson, Shakespeare, Whitman, Thoreau, Frost, and more, there is a running theme - Carpe Diem. As Professor Keating tells his students: Seize the day, boys... make your lives extraordinary. Write a poem... Continue Reading →
There are people who love coming-of-age movies that are simultaneously full of teenage angst and revelations... The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, School Ties, you know the ones that fit into that category. Well, there's another coming-of-age movie that stands out, for me, far above the others. And National Poetry Month is the perfect time to... Continue Reading →
There are people who love coming-of-age movies that are simultaneously full of teenage angst and revelations... The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, School Ties, you know the ones that fit into that category. Well, there's another coming-of-age movie that stands out, for me, far above the others. And National Poetry Month is the perfect time to... Continue Reading →
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