Like most movies, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was a book first -- this one by Jonathan Safran Foer. It is about a boy named Oskar who has to deal with his father's death on 9/11. In dealing with the tragedy, he finds a key of his father's with the word "black" written in red. He embarks on a journey to find the key's meaning. Along the way, he meets some pretty quirky characters and finds some letters from his grandmother. In some way, all of these people have faced tragedy.
While the book's story certainly is a journey through
The Giver
by Kaitlin January 27th, 2012 | Children's, Fiction, Young Adults
I think I’ve mentioned that my mother is a fifth grade teacher, and one of my favorite hobbies is browsing her bookshelf and re-discovering books I loved when I was that age (most of them have my name in the cover, taken from a bookshelf in my house). Occasionally, my mother will invite me to her classroom to help her decorate for new units or help out rearranging the furniture, but I haven’t been recently and I think I know why – she always loses me to the book corner, where I sit in her rocking chair and read
A State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
by Jessica B. January 26th, 2012 | Fiction
If you have never read anything by Ann Patchett before, A State of Wonder is a great place to start. It has a little bit of everything: action, adventure, mystery, but most of all, great writing. A State of Wonder follows the journey of Dr. Marina Singh as she travels from the safe suburban town she calls home deep into the the Amazonian jungle to track down both her dead colleague (Anders Ekman's) body and her former boss' on-going research into a drug which may provide women prolonged fertility and mean an end to menopause.
As Singh travels off into
As Singh travels off into
Through My Eyes
by T Akery January 23rd, 2012 | New Releases, Nonfiction
Through My Eyes is a book about the life of the quarterback, Tim Tebow. Written by Tim and his co-author, Nathan Whitaker, this book takes a look at Tebow's life, his faith, and his career in football.
Yet, Tim Tebow would have never been such a famous figure in football without the decision first made by his parents. The book starts out with his parents' decision to give birth to their son instead of following the suggestion of doctors to abort him. It is this beginning that has set the stage for his life.
His parents grew up on a farm;
Yet, Tim Tebow would have never been such a famous figure in football without the decision first made by his parents. The book starts out with his parents' decision to give birth to their son instead of following the suggestion of doctors to abort him. It is this beginning that has set the stage for his life.
His parents grew up on a farm;
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
by Sam P. January 20th, 2012 | Children's, Fiction
Now, I'm sure almost everybody has read this book, but can anyone tell me the difference between Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass? I see no hands raised, so I'll assume no one knows it. They are pretty much the same book, except Alice in Wonderland takes place when Alice is about seven and a half, but seems to be much older just by the way she acts. In Through the Looking Glass, Alice is a few years older.
In Alice in Wonderland, Alice is bored and ends up following a rabbit and falling down a rabbit hole
In Alice in Wonderland, Alice is bored and ends up following a rabbit and falling down a rabbit hole
