tHe crooKed WorD

As of April 30, 2014 we will no longer be posting reviews on tHe crooKed WorD. Reading is like breathing for us - and discovering new books and authors has been a wonderful adventure - but the time has come for us to move on. Thank you for your support, for allowing us into your lives, and for letting us influence in some small way the contents of your bookshelves.

Friday Feature

Friday Feature is where we share books we love that have been out for several years. We don't want these treasures to get lost just because they aren't babies anymore!

Books we've featured:


A Girl of the Limberlost by 




Bear Man of Admiralty Island by 

Born on Snowshoes by Evelyn Shore
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Christmas List, The by Richard Paul Evans
Dark is Rising, The by Susan Cooper
Dune by Frank Herbert
Elandris by Brandon Sanderson
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Enna Burning by Shannon Hale
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Graceling (The Seven Kingdoms, #1) by Kristin Cashore
Goose Girl, The (Books of Bayern #1) by Shannon Hale
Hero and the Crown, The by Robin McKinley
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Keeper of Dreams by Orson Scott Card
Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Rackety-Packety House by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Revenge of the Shadow King by Derek Benz, J.S. Lewis
Saints by Orson Scott Card
Shadow of the Wind, The by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox
Terrier (Beka Cooper, #1) by Tamora Pierce
These Is My Words by Nancy Turner
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Heidi by Johanna Spyri 
A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson
Legacies (Shadow Grail, #1) by Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill 
Dune by Frank Herbert
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 
44 by Jools Sinclair
Divergent by Veronica Roth