Word Nerd

Hamlet happens to be a favorite of mine too. In college I was able to take two different Shakespeare courses. During the course it was a de...

Recently, I watched the film of the new Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet featuring David Tennant as the moody Danish prince an...

Are you a plotter or a pantser? Pantsers, for those not familiar with the term, are people who fly by the seat of their pants, rolling with ...

Title: The Thieves of Manhattan Author: Adam Langer Length: 253 pages Genre: Literary fiction Where Word Nerd's Copy Came From: ...

Chalk one up in the win category -- the 10yo liked the book. He started it last night for his nighttime reading, liked it enough that he as...

Title: The Closers (Harry Bosch series #11) Author: Michael Connelly Genre: Mystery Length:   403 pages Where Word Nerd's Copy Came ...

Title: The Mysterious Benedict Author: Trenton Lee Steward Genre: YA Fiction Length: approximately 475 pages Where Stacie's Copy Cam...

This weekend, I got to visit Connor Prairie for their Headless Horseman program, complete with mildly haunted hayride in which the Horseman ...

My boys read. And I adore that they do. Mercer Mayer, David Shannon and Dr. Suess are regularly read. So are Mo Willems and Mary Pope Osb...

Over on the West Coast, in San Francisco, in a few hours when it actually becomes morning there, Bouchercon 2010's program schedule kick...

Title: Tap & Gown Author: Diane Peterfreund Length: ~270 pages Genre : Chick lit Where Word Nerd's Copy Came From: Indianapo...

Title: The Son of Laughter Author: Frederick Buechner Length: 274 pages Genre: literary fiction Where Word Nerd's Copy Came From: P...

Every reader I know has a decent sized list of "must read" authors. While mine have changed a bit over the year, there's a fai...

It's two back-to-back stats postings, but the Word Nerds are also geeks... For me, September was a pretty good reading month. In the s...

I have to admit, September was a good month. Six books, 3,133 pages or 522 pages per book. That puts me at 41 books for the year, still tren...

Let me declare my intentions boldly -- I am NOT participating in NaNoWriMo this year. It doesn't start for a month, you might say. How...

Title: The Postmistress Author: Sarah Blake Genre: Historical Length: approximately 300 pages Where Stacie's Copy Came From: Oshkos...

Title: Santa Olivia Author: Jacqueline Carey Genre: sci-fi Length: ~340 pages Where Word Nerd's Copy Came From: Indianapolis-Marion...

Title: The Accidental Billionaires Author: Ben Mezrich Length: 272 pages Genre: Non-fiction (technically) Where Stacie's Copy Came...

Title: Under the Rose and The Rites of Spring (Break) (Ivy League novels 2 and 3) Author: Diana Peterfreund Length: ~340 pages each Genre...