I usually don’t go for books that involve terrorist bombs I find them overdone; and usually once I see those two words on the back cover I set them down. But for some reason I decided to keep My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece in my hand. Rose was killed in a mass bombing when […]
Now, Voyager is a classic novel which was later popularized by the 1942 film starring Bette Davis. I first became antiquated with the novel through the cinema due to my favorite actress being Bette Davis. Therefore, I knew the story going into it but this did not tarnish the novel. The film followed the novel […]
Like most historic events or tragedies, you can remember where you were and what you were doing. I was fourteen at the time so don’t remember exactly that but have a very vivid memory just a few weeks afterward. I was in 8th grade and a boy a class behind mine brought two walkie talkies […]
As I saw Sarah Palin in Dolores Umbridge in The Order of the Phoenix I’ve found Barack Obama as Harry Potter in The Half-Blood Prince. Let’s start with the basics shall we? Both Harry and Barack have been dubbed “The Chosen One” at one time or another bringing hope and the thought of change to […]
Frank McCourt’s Memoir focuses on his childhood living in Ireland during the 1930s. His father drinks away the dole money and has Frank and his brothers swearing to die for Ireland every night, because of this, the McCourts live in poverty living on borrowed time and money and the goodness of the St. Vincent de […]
The novel is well paced and Mathilda is a fun lively character, parading around the house in her dead sister’s clothes and amidst it all, dealing with the dreaded puberty. Despite her attempts at being bad, the author, Victor Lodato, shows the innocence and naivety as 9/11 takes place during all this chaos with Mathilda […]
Featuring: Death, A Young Girl, Hiding, A Love Of Books Death serves as our narrator in this chilling novel. He quickly explains that he does not in any way look like the grim ripper that pop culture has perceived him to be, such as wearing a black cloak and carrying a scythe, but instead is […]