A TOR Book, 1977, 324 pgs.
Wow! This book was given to me last week and I have to say it was just what I needed. What a fantastic piece of science fiction! Let the reader beware though, once you start the first, you’ll want to read the rest of the books in […]
This book makes it official. Geraldine Brooks is one of my favorite authors. She writes with the quality of a classic author and is a beautiful storyteller. This was my second Brook’s novel I’ve read and both times I have been left with such a satisfied sentiment that I feel like I […]
I am sure it has already been stated on this website that I believe Roald Dahl to be one of the best, and probably one of my favorite, children’s author. One of my few memories of third grade is sitting in my cold (from the crazy AC) and hard chair, leaning my head on […]
This 619 page novel is Meyer’s first adult fiction. Following the success of her teen series, Twilight, she heads in another direction of imaginary and unique love affairs. The Host is a story about the difficult and exhausting relationship between the alien invader, Wanderer, and her host body, Melanie. Mixed in there […]
174 Pages, 2008 Houghton Mifflin Company.
I just love Louis Lowry’s writings. I can still vividly remember reading The Giver while substitute teaching in SW Florida so many years ago. From that moment on I became a fan. Having read everything by her that I can, this was a must have when we […]
This classic novel received the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, which is what primarialy attracted me to this work. It certainly wasn’t the cover art, which (on my copy) has a photo of Michelle Pfeiffer with a ridiculous look on her face from the motion picture based on this book. As I read it, I […]
548 pages, Grand Central Publishing, NY 2007
This was Baldacci’s thirteenth novel (pg. 547) but my first experience reading his work. It was a nice introduction for me into the style of this best selling author. I enjoyed it a lot, although near the end I was ready for him to wrap things […]
Amulet Books, NY. 2007. 217 pgs.
Recently my wife started reading this book while we were spending some time at a local book shop. As I am sitting around skimming some of the recent works of fiction I continue to hear bursts of laughter coming from my spouse who is holding onto the […]
I decided to read this Newbery award winning novel, which was first published in 1962, because my children read it in school. I knew it to be a classic children’s story and wanted to be able to discuss it’s content and find out what was taught regarding it.
Though it was written in a time […]