Author: stormshultz
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My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Book Review)
“Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate—a life…
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Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (Book Review)
“What if you could live forever? Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family’s property whose waters grant immortality. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and…
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A Midsummer Nightmare (Flash Fiction)
This story was based on an Instagram prompt (a mask and the sentence “I have dreamt of stars.”). This is based on the rumors that Shakespeare stole some of his plays. This particular story is entirely fiction 😉 John stormed into the kitchen, slamming a fist full of papers down in front of his wife.…
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A Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman (Book Review)
“A father and a son are seeing each other for the first time in years. The father has a story to share before it’s too late. He tells his son about a courageous little girl lying in a hospital bed a few miles away. She’s a smart kid—smart enough to know that she won’t beat…
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A Barbed Smile (Flash Fiction)
My first flash fiction posted here! Based on an Instagram prompt (had to include; barbed wire, a scrap of blue fabric, and howling winds), I wrote this semi-creepy ghost story. Everything is fictional (thank goodness). A clatter to Sarah’s right made her peek from under her veil. A woman was stooped over in the aisle…
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Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult (Book Review)
“Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah. And then one day Oliver actually…
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The Unveiling by Erin Mc Luckie (Book Review)
“When Covid lifted, so did the veil on our world. We thought Covid was terrible because it crumbled economies, crippled businesses and left people feeling a sense of loss. That was until the veil lifted. It took two and a half years of on’and’off lockdowns for people to turn from merrily singing to each other…
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Catching Christmas by Terri Blackstock (Book Review)
Last post of 2020. SInce it’s Christmas Day, I think our last book review is going to be on a Christmas book. “As a first-year law associate, Sydney Batson knows she will be updating her resume by New Year’s if she loses her current court case. So when her grandmother gets inexplicably ill while she’s…
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Christmas stories we should all be reading!
Am I late? Yes. Is Christmas going to be here in a week? Yes. Am I going to blame COVID and the holidays for being MIA? Absolutely, 100% yes. Am I still going to make a post about the best Christmas books!? You bet your eggnog, I am! Olive, the Other Reindeer. Oh boy. Has…
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Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (Book Review)
“Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It’s always the same – Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, Mum pretending she made the Christmas pudding, and the next-door neighbours coming round for sherry in their terrible festive jumpers. And now it’s even easier with online bargain-shopping sites – if you spend enough you even get free…
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