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
The Flight of Gemma Hardy
January 16th, 2012 by Angela Yorke | New Releases
Set in the 1960s in Iceland and Scotland, The Flight of Gemma Hardy is Margot Livesey’s own ingenious interpretation and homage to Charlotte Brontë’s much-loved and long-lived classic, Jane Eyre.
As with the 19th-century novel, the book’s eponymous character is orphaned at the age of 10. Gemma travels from Iceland to live with her kind uncle in Scotland. Unfortunately, he dies, and she becomes the ward of an aunt who is anything but pleased to care for the girl. Gemma is sent away to boarding school soon enough as a “working pupil,” where she is to study but is also
As with the 19th-century novel, the book’s eponymous character is orphaned at the age of 10. Gemma travels from Iceland to live with her kind uncle in Scotland. Unfortunately, he dies, and she becomes the ward of an aunt who is anything but pleased to care for the girl. Gemma is sent away to boarding school soon enough as a “working pupil,” where she is to study but is also
