Dare to Speak Up (A Book Review by Laurie Halse Andersen’s Speak) “Where can you run to escape from yourself?” That line taken from the song Dare You to Move by the band Switchfoot come to mind while I was … Continue reading
Through Pages and Hearts She Lives (A Book Review of Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl) “I feel the suffering of millions,” Anne Frank wrote in an entry on her diary dated July 15, 1944. Unknown to its young … Continue reading
First Strike (A Book Review of Joel C. Rosenberg’s The Last Jihad) Do you still remember where and what were you doing on the fateful day of September 11, 2001? On that historic Tuesday morning, Joel C. Rosenberg was putting … Continue reading
A Giant Tale with a Giant Heart (A Book Review of Candy Gourlay’s Tall Story) Author’s note: First, I want to give my thanks to Ms Tarie Sabido of Asia in the Heart, World on the Mind, where I won … Continue reading
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the most exceptional series I will never forget for as long as I live. My love affair with this book started during high school when I first saw the … Continue reading
I know this is a late post, but of I couldn’t let Halloween pass by without blogging about it. Unlike some folks who’ve gone out and went to the cemetery on November 1 to pay their respects to their dearly … Continue reading
Digging Holes (A Book Review of Louis Sachar’s Holes) Welcome to Camp Green Lake! Only it’s not the kind of lake or the sort of camp you have in mind. It’s a dry, flat wasteland and it’s a boys’ juvenile … Continue reading
The Monster Never Dies (A Book Review of Stephen King’s Cujo) Things start out starkly simple in Stephen King’s 1981 novel, Cujo. Once again King transports his readers back on the fictional small town of Castle Rock, Maine, the setting … Continue reading
Reading a Celebrated Classic (A Book Review of Haper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird) July 11 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, and arguably one of the most influential … Continue reading
