Yes, it’s official! I’m jumping the George R. R. Martin bandwagon! Since HBO aired the first season of the TV series Game of Thrones to wide acclaim, people have just been raving mad about how good it was — and … Continue reading
The Power of Stories (A Book Review of Tess Uriza Holthe’s When the Elephants Dance) A group of neighbors seek shelter in the cellar of an abandoned house. They are cramped, huddled on the dirt, starving and terrified. Outside fierce … Continue reading
Historical Fiction at its Finest! (A Book review of Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth) First introduced to me as a 2007 book selection by the Oprah Book Club, The Pillars of the Earth remains of one Ken Follett’s … Continue reading
A Spy Novel that Reads Like a Good Alternate History Fiction (A Book Review of Ken Follett’s The Key to Rebecca) The last camel collapsed at noon. So begins Ken Follett’s intriguing World War II thriller set in 1942 Cairo, … Continue reading
It is said that anything that happens once will come in twice and is bound to happen the third time around. Just when I thought I have had enough I’m still at it, for, indeed Gentle Readers, we’ll once more … Continue reading
There and Back Again (A Book Review of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit) There and back again. Such words and none other perfectly describe my intense love affair for J.R.R. Tolkien’s books; why, in each endeavor of reading his works is … 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
The Darkness of Man’s Heart (A Book Review of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies) (Author’s note: I’m giving you a fair warning—Spoilers be within.) I believe there’s always the proper time when a book is meant to be read. … Continue reading
In a World of Turmoil and Transition, There Flies a Kite (A Book Review of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini) Khaled Hosseini’s powerful debut novel, The Kite Runner, is a heart-breaking story of an unlikely friendship; of a father … Continue reading
Entangled With a Writer’s Mystery (A Book Review of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind) The novel, set in post-Spanish civil war Barcelona, concerns a young boy, Daniel Sempere. Just after the war, Daniel’s father takes him to … Continue reading
