Tory C Anderson

Book Reviews

Cynthia Rylant doesn’t write long books. She doesn’t need to. She is a master craftsman with words, and can say

It’s no wonder that a book with the title The Warden’s Daughter deals with the theme of prisons. Scenes of

Sara Crewe catches my imagination because she is a superhero. What? Sara Crewe can run with the Avengers? The Hulk

I’ve only read one book by Gary Schmidt. That book is Okay For Now. In one fell swoop he made

I recently read Crime and Punishment for the second time. It fit my needs and filled my soul so well

There are three different times in your life when you might read a classic. It might be early in your

Many years ago I read Saffy’s Angel, the first in the Casson Family series. In a review of that book

I’ve read many books that were created around a killer idea that fell flat because the author was unable to

I was surprised when I found that I was reading a comfort book. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie

I came into All the Crooked Saints completely ignorant. I had never heard of the book, or of the author,