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
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The Giver
January 27th, 2012 by Kaitlin | 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
January 26th, 2012 by Jessica B. | 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
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
January 20th, 2012 by Sam P. | 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
Author Profile: Nick Hornby
January 13th, 2012 by Kaitlin | Authors, Fiction
It’s funny – for all the famous titles accredited to Nick Hornby, it was two relatively unknown ones that made me a fan of his. Most famous for his novel-to-film-adaptations (High Fidelity, About a Boy, and Fever Pitch), Hornby has an easy style that somehow makes wildly unique characters easy to relate to. Since I haven’t read any of the aforementioned titles, my conclusion is drawn from the two books I have ready by him: How to Be Good and A Long Way Down.
I read A Long Way Down one summer while working at a golf course. I’d be
I read A Long Way Down one summer while working at a golf course. I’d be
