Sophomores in 1986, Eleanor and Park is the story of two star-crossed misfits. Eleanor is an overweight red head who comes from a broken home, and Park is a Korean loner or sorts. Park unwillingly makes room for Eleanor (the new kid) to sit by him on the bus. Days and weeks pass without Eleanor […]
Archives for June 2013
Review | The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
2013-06-28 · by ·
Wowsa! Talk about a page-turning thriller! I just finished Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave in a little more than 24 hours. Yes, this means I have a sink full of dishes and an unmade bed. The 1st Wave = Lights Out, The 2nd Wave = Surf’s Up, The 3rd Wave = Pestilence, The 4th Wave […]
Review | Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
2013-06-24 · by ·
In the strange and surreal world of the former-Soviet Union, where the line between the mafia and, well, everyone else is thin, there lives a writer…and he may not even know which side of the line he lives on himself. I don’t typically read crime novels. I’ve picked up an occasional thriller (David Baldacci‘s Absolute […]
In the news: George Orwell’s 1984 is flying off the shelves [Poll]
2013-06-12 · by ·
[Don’t forget to take the poll at the bottom and leave your comments if you’ve read the book] If they haven’t already, apparently, a lot of people are planning on reading George Orwell’s classic dystopian novels, Animal Farm and 1984. In the wake of the NSA snooping–allegations of listening in on Verizon customers and the […]
Review | Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences by Ward Connerly
2013-06-10 · by ·
Ward Connerly is a crusader, but a crusader who has picked a battle that matters. A black man born in the south but raised in the west, Connerly is a unique figure in the fight for equal rights against racial preferences. Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences, part autobiography and part political memoir, is […]
Review | Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins
2013-06-07 · by ·
Billy Collins has long been one of my favorite modern poets. His poems are extremely accessible and yet also interesting and profound. I especially like the humor that can be found in Collins’ poetry. Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems did not disappoint. I am often interested in an examination of the subject of death and […]
Review | The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
2013-06-06 · by ·
For as long as she can remember, Blue Sargent has been warned by the clairvoyants in her family that she will cause her true love to die if she kisses him. Blue doesn’t doubt her family’s multiple prophesies regarding her love life, she’s just fairly dubious that she’ll ever allow herself to fall in love […]
Review | The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
2013-06-05 · by ·
Ivan is a silverback gorilla who has been living in the Exit 8, Big Top Mall and Video Arcade for the last thirty years. He has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. Ivan tries not to think about his long lost life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan thinks […]
