Category: Books
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Book Review: THE SECRET ADVERSARY
Author: Agatha Christie Number of Pages: 400 Publisher: Harper Collins Release Date: 1922 “After WW1, childhood pals Tommy Beresford and “Tuppence” Prudence Cowley, lack money and prospects, become adventurers for the British Government. Rich American Julius P. Hersheimmer, powerful Mr Whittington, and an evil mastermind’s conspiracy all seek Jane Finn, given papers vital to peace by an agent at […]
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Book Review: TEN LITTLE ALIENS
Author: Stephen Cole Number of Pages: 305 Publisher: BBC Books Release Date: 2002 “Deep in the heart of a hollowed-out moon the First Doctor finds a chilling secret: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of their death. They are the empire’s most wanted terrorists, and their discovery could end a war devastating the galaxy. But is […]
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Book Review: FORTUNATELY, THE MILK
Author: Neil Gaiman Number of Pages: 114 Publisher: HarperCollins Release Date: September 17, 2013 “I bought the milk,” said my father. “I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: T h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall […]
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more books: ¡en español!
For all of you in the United States, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving! I’m really excited about the books I have to show you today, because they’re Spanish translations! I’ve been taking Spanish classes for the past five years in school, but I’m by no means fluent. I read a Spanish translation of […]
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Book Review: MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN
Author: Ransom Riggs Number of Pages: 352 Publisher: Quirk Release Date: January 1, 2011 “A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific […]
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Book Review: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
Author: Jonathan Swift Number of Pages: 306 Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: 1726 “Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters – with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and the brutish Yahoos […]
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Book Review: BELOVED
Author: Toni Morrison Number of Pages: 324 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: 1987 “Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. […]
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Book Review: HOW TO READ LITERATURE LIKE A PROFESSOR
Author: Thomas C. Foster Number of Pages: 314 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: January 1, 2003 “What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the […]
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Book Review: THE POWER OF MYTH
Author: Joseph Campbell (being interviewed by Bill Moyers) Number of Pages:320 Publisher: Anchor Doubleday Release Date: 1988 “Campbell’s most impressive gift was his ability to take a contemporary situation, such as the murder & funeral of President John F. Kennedy, & help us understand its impact in the context of ancient mythology. Herein lies the power […]
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