Jul 2, 2019 | (Mrs. Twist Reads This)
I’ve rounded up all the books we are reading this summer in our Mrs. Twist Reads This book club, and a fun announcement. Summer reading is for the whole family. In 2009, then Secretary of Education Arne Duncan described summer learning loss as “summer slide.” ...
May 23, 2019 | (Mrs. Twist Reads This)
It’s time for cake y’all! Two years ago I hatched an idea to help me spend more time reading books and less time watching TV. About six of us met for the first time in my living room as we read Into the Water by Paula Hawkins. We needed a spread sheet...
Apr 22, 2019 | (Mrs. Twist Reads This)
This month Mrs. Twist Reads This Bookclub is reading Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity and Love by Dani Shapiro. “What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?...
Mar 16, 2019 | (Mrs. Twist Reads This)
Our bookclub selection for March is The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib. This People magazine pick, a debut novel by Zgheib, is a poetic, poignant, haunting portrait of a young woman’s struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life....
Jan 31, 2019 | (Mrs. Twist Reads This)
This month we will be reading The Library Book by Susan Orlean which also happens to be the Reese Witherspoon Hello Sunshine bookclub selection! Great minds think alike. A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK...
Dec 21, 2018 | (Mrs. Twist Reads This)
Mrs. Twist Reads This is kicking off 2019 with a goal to read at least three classic novels and I am super excited! One of our members proposed the idea to me that she wanted to try reading the classics and I thought it was a perfect way to expand our reach in...