I feel prepared to make the argument that The Fault in Our Stars is not a young adult book. It's a book about young adults. I think there are books, written for a young adult audience, or any particular audience, that are well-written enough and important enough that they become greater than their intended audience.… Continue reading Book Review – The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review – Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
This summer I read Jane Eyre for the first time and greatly enjoyed it. So it made sense to read Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (who is not a French man like I presumed for some reason). Wide Sargasso Sea is an unofficial prequel to the famous novel and has since become fairly famous… Continue reading Book Review – Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Book Review – Every Man Dies Alone
Hans Fallada might not be a name many people know. Even less likely know the name Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen. Fallada (the nom de plume of Ditzen) died in Berlin in 1947, shortly after he finished writing his final novel, Every Man Dies Alone. The book was published after his death. It was not translated… Continue reading Book Review – Every Man Dies Alone
Book Review – The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Finding a new author that I enjoy reading is a little like visiting a really cool city for the first time. You’re excited, you’re so happy you’ve come, you’re a little overwhelmed by all the exploration you have ahead of you. You go home or you finish your book and you keep those fond memories.… Continue reading Book Review – The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Book Review – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Moving day. Again. Thankfully, moving from a place you've been housesitting for a month is much easier than real, full on moving. I've loved our time in Roberts Creek; I'll miss the little community here, the beaches, and our doggy friends. But I'm excited for the next step and shifting from Roberts Creek to Sechelt… Continue reading Book Review – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Book Review – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Yesterday, reading Jane Eyre... With a little bit of this... Jane Eyre is one of those novels that I'm surprised I got through high school and university without reading. In truth, I did my best to avoid it. I lumped it in with Jane Austen and Wuthering Heights and didn't have much desire to read… Continue reading Book Review – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Book Review – Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
“A wise and searching novel about the fine line between being useful and being used.” That’s the quote from Elizabeth Hay displayed on the cover of the copy of Good to a Fault (Freehand Books, 2008) that I got out of the library. It’s a good quote –a succinct and accurate description of the novel.… Continue reading Book Review – Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
Book Review – Real Marriage by Mark & Grace Driscoll
"Our goal cannot be to fix our husbands or even to save our marriages, but rather to glorify God by submitting to our husbands, trusting that His commands are those of a loving Father who not only wants our lives to work but to be ones of worship." The above quote, from Real Marriage by… Continue reading Book Review – Real Marriage by Mark & Grace Driscoll
Book Review – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Have you ever been in the situation where someone whose taste in books you respect and generally agree with recommends a book that you have seen lots (because you work in a bookstore) and you’ve always thought it looked just “Meh” and then you finally read War Dances which is by the same author and… Continue reading Book Review – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Book Review – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
In the cottage where I spent my summers as a child, there was an old cardboard box under one of the beds. It was a box that, each summer, my brother and I pulled out and looked through as if we’d never seen it before. It was a box full of comic books and each… Continue reading Book Review – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
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