To continue Tris’s story started in Divergent, it’s time to scale back from the challenges of becoming Dauntless and explore what it means to be an individual in a society that survives because of conformity.
Read more "Book Review: Insurgent by Veronica Roth"Everyone put your worn copies of The Hunger Games back on your shelves for a rest; we have a new trilogy to become obsessed with.
Read more "Book Review: Divergent by Veronica Roth"When I was growing up I had the nice stories of films like She’s All That to fill my head with the lies about the glory of teen makeovers for love; this week reading The Spectacular Now destroyed everything.
Read more "Book Review: The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp"As we’ve feared, from the moment E.T. struck fear in the hearts of every child on the planet, the aliens will not come in peace. And when they do, they will come in waves.
Read more "Book Club In Session: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey"I think we might have the next Twilight (but better) or Hunger Games (but a little worse) on our hands!
Read more "Book Review: The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey"I don’t know how he does it, but Hosseini has done it again; that is, rocked my world with yet another touching, beautifully written novel. Somehow I think he understands what it is to be human a little bit more than the rest of us.
Read more "Book Review: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini"In preparation for CBS’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, I sat down with this brick of a book too see if the show has a good chance to succeed where so many other high concept shows tend to struggle.
Read more "Book Review: Under The Dome by Stephen King"The story of The Kitchen House begins at its end – with a young woman and terrified child happening upon a lifeless body swinging from a high tree branch, the ashes of a scorched plantation house smoldering in the background. How did it come to this?
Read more "Book Review: The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom"Apparently, modern day witch hunts do exist. In case you haven’t heard the story of the West Memphis Three, now is your chance to read all about it before it is released as a movie later this year.
Read more "Book Review: Devil’s Knot – The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt"Ross Matthews is right about one thing – any self-confidence he feels about his writing skills is without a doubt delusional. He’d have to be out of his mind to think that readers will actually be entertained by the garbage he passes off as a book.
Read more "Book Review: Man Up! Tales of My Delusional Self Confidence by Ross Matthews"
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