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Review: Mockingjay

Review: Mockingjay

I was so hyped up to read Mockingjay and unfortunately it did not live up to my incredibly high expectations.  It was good, just not great.  After District 12 is blow up like Princess Leia’s home planet, Alderaan any survivors move to District 13 who has only reemerged after years of hiding.  I did not […]

Posted May 4, 2012 by Whitney in Review / 1 Comment

Review: The Borrower

Review: The Borrower

Rebecca Makkai’s novel was told from the point of view of a librarian — someone who loves books, loves her job and her patrons. and there are book references on every page. Sounds like a book lover’s dream right?  Unfortunately, no. Ian Drake is a ten-year old patron of the library whose parents have enrolled […]

Posted July 24, 2011 by Whitney in Review / 5 Comments

Review: The White Masai

Review: The White Masai

While on Safari with her then boyfriend, Corinne Hofmann glimpses a  Samburu Warrior, Lketinga and it is love at first sight.  She drops everything in her home of Switzerland and spends the next several months stocking him around Kenya.  Despite a drastic change in living conditions and neither speaking the same language, using broken English […]

Posted May 24, 2011 by Whitney in Review / 3 Comments

Review: Kings Of The Earth

Review: Kings Of The Earth

The novel is told from various points of view flashing back to their childhood in the 30s to 1990 with the murder in question.  Through this, the reader grasps a better understanding for the boys, leading to what could have been the motive and that Audie and Creed were victims themselves. I have mixed feelings […]

Posted November 20, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 4 Comments

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Review I finished Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte last night and find it very appropriate that it was during a tornado watch as that describes this novel very well.   A tornado of disastrous events circles this novel, involving, gambling and alcoholism, violence, death and an overall conniving plot.  None of the characters had any redeeming […]

Posted May 1, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 6 Comments