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Book Review: God-Shaped Hole
Media Type: Print Book Title: God-Shaped Hole Author: Tiffanie DeBartolo Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Pages: Paperback; 336 Release Date: May 1, 2002 Source: Borrowed from a friend ———————————————- Genre: Contemporary Romance HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories that will tear their heart out. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone. Everyone said she was a fraud, that she was just making it up. I’d really like to know why…
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Book Review: The Road
A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the men who stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food–and each other. –From Goodreads Cover Inspection: There are a ton of different covers for this book, the most recent being the movie tie-in cover. I like this one. It looks so bleak and desolate. First Thoughts: The book opens on a man and his son, no…
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Book Review: Stargirl
Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first. Then they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her different, and Leo, panicked and desperate with love, urges her to become the very thing that can destroy her: normal. In this celebration of nonconformity, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional…
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Book Review: Speaker for the Dead
Media Type: Print Book Title: Speaker for the Dead Author: Orson Scott Card Publisher: Tor Books Pages: Mass Market Paperback; 382 Release Date: August 15, 1994 Source: Bookswim ————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ————————————— HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love Sci Fi books, and huge worlds that are built around them. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.…
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Book Review: V for Vendetta
REMEMBER, REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy: a world of the not-too-distant future, in which freedom was not lost, but surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime that rose to power by exploiting the people’s worst fears and most damning weaknesses. This is the setting for the parable of Evey, a young woman who is saved from death by a masked man calling himself only V. Beguiling and dangerous, V ignites the fuse of revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to wake up and shed the blanket of tyranny and oppression in which they have…
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Book Review: Haunted
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them, to be precise. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined “Writers’ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,” and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of “real life” that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But “here” turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside world – and where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly…
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Book Review: The Hunger Games
Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don’t live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her…
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Book Review: The Lost Symbol
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Lost Symbol Author: Dan Brown Publisher: Doubleday Books Pages: Hardcover; 509 Release Date: September 15, 2009 Source: Purchased ————————————— Genre: Historical Fiction / Mystery HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of the series, who are looking to finish it up. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Everyone off the bus, and welcome to a Washington, D.C., they never told you about on your school trip when you were a kid, a place steeped in Masonic history that, once revealed, points to a dark, ancient conspiracy that…