Reviews

This book was recommended to me by a library patron who found the book very interesting and wanted to know how the book compared to my experiences growing up in Eastern Europe.

Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus is a wonderful, mysterious, enchanting novel, as magical as the circus it tells the story of. Two wizards challenge each other to a contest, pitting their two students, a boy called Marco and a girl named Celia, against each other, with a surreal, avant garde circus, Le Cirque de Rêves, as the battleground. As it goes on, the game gets more and more complicated, drawing more and more people into a web of magic, love and loss.

PBS’s Downton Abbey and history enthusiasts, as well as British royal watchers will be excited about this British television documentary series of 20, thirty minute episodes featuring all stately houses and castles which Queen Victoria visited througho

I had never read a Mary Kay McComas book before and I was delightfully surprised at what a good story What Happened to Hannah turned out to be.  Twenty years ago, Hannah Benson, at the tender of 17, left her home in the small Virginia town of C

Anna lives in a blue-colored world, filled with roses and birds and flute music.  But once she finds a tattered doll abandoned in her high school, Anna is pulled into the harsh and gritty life of Abel Tannatek, the school’s peddler of drugs—and more.  Abel spins stories and tales for his little sister, who is on the verge of being yanked from her home with A

This Robert Greenwald documentary of the Koch Brothers, Charles and David, is very much an attack on the conservative billionaires.  The accusations from Greenwald are from his very liberal political views.

In her previous memoir, A Year of Magical Thinking, author Joan Didion writes about the death of her husband. More recently in Blue Nights she writes about the death of her daughter, Quintana Roo. The recent memoir differs from the previous in that the tone is lower, the story more tragic.

12·21 is a thriller of the pandemic variety. This time, instead of a bacteria or virus being the cause of a widespread killer disease, the culprit is a prion. What’s a prion? What I gathered from the book is that prions are proteins that can reproduce on their own, they can become infectious, and they are the cause of Mad Cow disease.  Not pleasant.

First in the new Watersong trilogy, Wake takes us to the quaint seaside tourist town of Capri where 16-year-old Gemma is the star of the high school swim team and has finally made the boy next door notice her.  This summer there are three new girls in town.  Tall, beautiful and supremel