Stephanie Merry

6 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Stephanie Merry

Shortly after Sean Connors returned from spring break, the University of Arkansas professor of English education asked a classroom of students if anyone had spent their vacation reading the recently released fifth Hunger Games novel, “Sunrise on the Reaping.” A number of hands shot up, and, as he recalled, “a pretty good conversation” ensued.

Nov 23, 2024 | spokesman.com | Stephanie Merry

The best thrillers of the year find long-standing series in fine form, as well as newcomers to the genre leaving their chilling mark. In 1975 Missouri, a cheeky one-eyed boy named Patch saves the daughter of a wealthy family from the grasp of a serial killer. The bleak repercussions of that incident reverberate for decades as one man is wrongfully convicted and Patch’s obsession with tracking down the real murderer threatens to upend the lives of everyone around him.

Oct 9, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Stephanie Merry

Sophie Kinsella. (John Swannell)Review by Stephanie MerryOctober 9, 2024 at 2:49 p.m. EDTSophie Kinsella knows a thing or two about happy endings. The British author who unleashed the credit-card-crazed Becky Bloomwood onto readers with the rom-com “Confessions of a Shopaholic” in 2000 has sold more than 45 million copies of her many feel-good books.

Oct 9, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Jacob Brogan |Nora Krug |Stephanie Merry |Sophia Nguyen

Renée Zellweger in Bridget Jones's Diary, the hit movie based on a novel by Helen Fielding. Upon realising there’s a fourth Bridget Jones movie coming in 2025, and that it’s been more than a quarter of a century since her diary became a sensation, staffers at the Washington Post’s Book World decided it was time to read (or reread) Helen Fielding’s novel to see how (or if) Bridget has stood the test of time. Nora Krug: When Bridget Jones’s Diary came out in the US in 1998, I felt seen.

Oct 5, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan |Nora Krug |Stephanie Merry |Sophia Nguyen

Renée Zellweger in “Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason.” (Universal/Studio Canal/Miramax/Kobal/Shutterstock) Review by Jacob Brogan , Nora Krug , Stephanie Merry and Sophia Nguyen October 5, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. EDT Upon realizing there’s a fourth Bridget Jones movie coming in 2025, and that it’s been more than a quarter of a century since her diary became a sensation, staffers at Book World decided it was time to read (or reread) Helen Fielding’s novel to see how (or if) Bridget has stood the...