Family by Micol Ostow is a free verse fictionalization of the Charles Manson murders. The story is told from the point of view of Melinda Jensen, a troubled 17 year old who desperately seeks affection. As she is a runaway, she sleeps on park benches. And so while passed out on a park bench she meets […]
Dead End In Norvelt by Jack Gantos Audiobook Review
July 3, 2011
Audiobook Review: Dead End In Norvelt by Jack Gantos Dead End In Norvelt by Jack Gantos is a semi-autobiographical young adult book set in the 1960s in a Roosevelt town known as Norvelt, I mention setting because it is an integral piece of the book and the very first thing I think of in describing […]
Book Review: My Dear I Wanted To Tell You: A Novel by Louisa Young
June 2, 2011
My Dear I wanted To Tell You: A Novel by Louisa Young is set in England during the World War One era. It opens with a young working class boy, Riley Purefoy, main character, befriending an upper class artist family, the Waveneys. Out of generosity, the Waveney family provide Riley with upper class schooling as […]
Retro Friday Review: Crocodile On The Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
May 27, 2011
Retro Friday Reviews are hosted by Angieville. Basically you review an older book on Friday. I read the vast majority of Crocodile On The Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters on my iPhone, something I don’t recommend, as I was easily jarred out of reading, plus I didn’t really feel like I was making any progress. This […]
Book Review: Strings Attached by Judy Blundell
April 20, 2011
Strings Attached by Judy Blundell is seedy night clubs personified. With each turn of the page, one can practically smell the cigarette smoke wafting. The year is 1950 and Kit Corrigan has moved to New York City from Providence, Rhode Island in hopes of catching her big break and landing a role in a Broadway […]
Book Review: The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall by Mary Downing Hahn
April 4, 2011
I would classify The Ghost Of Crutchfield Hall by Mary Downing Hahn as historical fiction horror. The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall is a very brief middle grade book chock full of orphans, servants, a mean old lady, and a ghost. 12 year old Florence’s parents died in a boating accident when she was very young. […]