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I give this novel five stars. It is a modern cautionary tale in vein with Orwell’s 1984. Unfortunately, it has parts inappropriate for middle and high schoolers
One of the advantages of our approach toward homeschooling is that we created a culture of reading aloud as a family. Having not done this in a while, we…
Where were these books when I needed them homeschooling? I absolutely love these and give them an enthusiastic five stars. I bought this set as a…
If you have a dancer on your Christmas gift list this is a wonderful book. I loved it and give it five stars. Great photos of dancers exuberantly expressing
Our teenaged homeschooled daughter is very enthused by these two new books. Originally seeing both in a great local independent bookstore, she was able to get one through interlibrary loan and begged me to get the other for her, “and not to wait for Christmas either, please.” I have a homeschooling budget and have learned … Read more
Last weekend, when I drove out of state and back, I chose this to listen to in the car, never expecting to like it so much. If you have a business CEO or sales manager on your Christmas list, this would be a great gift for them! But so many others of us can benefit … Read more
I really enjoyed this small volume and give it four stars. I chose to read it for my memoir class in September, but lingered over it. Now, when I could no longer renew it, I was finally motivated to stop savoring it so slowly and get on with finishing it. It was especially lovely to … Read more
I didn’t like this book much and am posting this mostly to let you know not to waste your time on it.
I really enjoyed this novel and give it five stars. Chewing it over while I slept, my subconscious awoke me too early this morning wondering how it was
This book enjoyed acclaim back in 2006 when it came out, and won the Booker Prize, at which point I put it on my reading list. Reviews of this book are all over the lot,
I enjoyed this book and found it gives a good introduction to writing in the genre of memoir. The author has written several memoirs and is a professor of the subject at
While I was in Maine and in his stomping grounds, I read this biography of one of my favorite children’s book authors, Robert McCloskey. He wrote, Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal, Homer Price, Lentil, Centerburg Tales, One Morning in Maine, Bert Dow, and my personal favorite, Time of Wonder. (I poured over Time … Read more
I loved this book and give it five stars. It was a delight to read – pure fun: inventive, imaginative, contemporary and totally refreshing.
You can see why this author has won the Pulitzer Prize; he writes well. That said, I still didn’t much like this book, and since it was highly acclaimed and gushingly reviewed in 2011, I’m writing this post to tell you to save your time and read something else. This novel is intelligently written with … Read more
This book is about a troubled young lady who hiked 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail by herself. I found it to be a compelling read, although like her feet, it rubbed raw in places.
This book was a pleasant surprise. I found it on the library’s new book shelf, and didn’t expect to like it as well as I did. It is the second in a series and you may wish to begin with the first, titled Paris to Die For, which turns out to be well liked too. … Read more
I’m a Herman Wouk fan from as far back as the 70’s. I loved this recent light work written in his nineties in the form of correspondence – email, fax, skype, texting, etc. Oh, to be able to be so “with it” at such an age! The title refers to the story of Moses, which … Read more