Lighting Their Fires: Raising Children in a Mixed-Up, Muddled Up, Shook Up World by Rafe Esquith is basically as the title promises a guide to upbringing children to be all they can be. I don’t have children, but I interact with children on a daily basis, as a student teacher. (I haven’t dropped out of […]
Review of The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
September 10, 2009
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett is a work of narrative non-fiction. This means it’s most likely not going to be a snooze like your earth science textbook! I think that anybody reading this review most likely loves books. If you don’t love books, why oh why are you on […]
Sunshine by Robin McKinley Book Review
August 30, 2009
Sunshine by Robin McKinley is very enjoyable. With the onslaught of vampire books, it would seem there is nothing fresh within the genre. By this I mean, I feel a lot of those books are same story different name, maybe variable A is changed, maybe it’s variable, you get the point. Well, Sunshine is different […]
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Book Review
August 25, 2009
Reading an abridged book is like eating cake without frosting. You don’t really need the frosting, but the frosting is what gives a cake it’s delicious flavor. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is a book which ought to be read unabridged, if only for the richness and flavor of the text. The […]
Review of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
August 16, 2009
Move over Lizzie Bennett, Margaret Hale has found her way into my heart.
Review of The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner
August 13, 2009
The greatest thing about The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner was the cover.