Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld Freshmanyear, high school. Hailing from South Bend, Indiana, Lee Fiora is starting her first year at Ault, one of New England’s most exclusive boarding schools, but it might as well be a foreign country. Though money, class, and race are never spoken of openly on Ault’s ...
It's time for the final bookdiscussion of November, the paperback of Fiona Patton's The Golden Tower , which is the second book in The Warriors of Estavia series, begun with The Silver Lake . I haven... protects all who dwell here from both the nomadic human invaders that attack each year, and the hungry spirits which are drawn to the living energies of the silver...
... surprisingly very little to say about it. It’s everything the book is, which is melodramatic and full of emo angst (and ... this late October, but I’m finding it a tough book to get into. Dickens truly let his ink bleed all over ...McKinley’s take on vampire literature when I read it a year ago, but since I find it hard to believe that there’s a McKinley book I only like on a lukewarm level, I’m going ...
The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson Twenty year old Ruth Berger was supposed to bein London already with her family and fiancé, well before the Nazis marched into her beloved city of Vienna. Instead, she’s left behind and with her life constantly in danger due to her Jewish identity. When a former British colleague of a father, Professor Quin Somerville, discovers her desperate state, he ...
78. The Case for God by Karen Armstrong This book was incredibly tedious to get through and not really what I was expecting based on the title. As opposed to the Case for...is limited space to get into any detail on the movements, and I just didn't find myself getting much out of this book at all. It's a shame because I've really enjoyed some of Armstrong's other books on religion. This one just didn...
...by the father who has been separated from his family the entire time. The book has some haunting details in it, but like most books where the characters ...horrible situation in our nation's history, so I would recommend it. This book was Loyola's common text for freshmen this year and I saw the author speak about it, which I actually found far more compelling than her book. I give it a 6 out of 10.
...Taylor I expected this to be more of a travel writing book than it actually turned out to be. The book is written in alternating chapters by Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter ...-life crisis issues she was experiencing. It was an okay book, and I did admire their relationship, but it was not ... was expecting. It was very melancholy for most of the book. I give it 5 out of 10.
... marvel about the wonders of this book to me. It's a Christian fiction book that uses the experiences of the main character Mackenzie .... The first third of the book was kind of a crime fiction ... The last two-thirds of the book are some supernatural experience in which ...over to the rest of the book I found it tedious and boring...nearly as enlightened while reading this book because it did a whole lot...
... in giving you Occlumency lessonslast year. Therefore I will be giving you the lessons myself this year, in addition to some other ... is more competent then a sixth year. “The Lovegoods have been receiving ... for publishing your article last year,” Bill said, standing and shaking ... the whole dementor thing last year? Ginny rounded on him, looking ... in a corner, reading a book. “I’m going out for ...
... old university classmate, a beautiful woman named Ipek. It begins snowing at the beginning of the book and doesn’t stop until almost the end. Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk has written a novel ...Twain home in Connecticut, she is persuaded to share Thanksgiving nearby with her sister, nieces, and 82-year-old father. The happy reunion with father doesn’t quite have the warmth that sister Frances had ...
