Their Eyes Were Watching God is a book with accolades that I simply do not get. The writing is beautiful with an intriguing storyline however, it had me scratching my head. The dialect was a little jagged and the characters were not to my liking, yet I couldn’t put a finger on why. Then I […]
Hosted by Rose City Reader Beginning: It was her idea to tie up the nun. The dormitory lights were cut every night at ten. Locked into their rooms, girls commanded to a cemetery silence before sleep, waking at dawn for morning prayers. Hosted by Freda’s Voice Page 56 She understood he was waiting for lies […]
I really, really wanted to like The Hobbit. I had tried reading it in high school and failed like a physics pop quiz. I had hoped that age would change my opinion as I love Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately, that was not the case. There were too many songs — Bilbo is a long-winded […]
What first drew me to On Borrowed Time was the cast. It has not one, not two but three actors from It’s A Wonderful Life, in my opinion, the greatest Christmas movie ever made. The gist of the movie is of an orphaned boy named Pud. After his parent’s death, he goes to live with […]