Fans of the first series will find themselves pleased by this nostalgic trip to the past. We get to watch Bluestar from the moment she opens her eyes as a kit, and follow her struggles as she continually faces loss and grief. Many people close to her die, and the sacrifices she makes are intense [...]
Autobiographies often suffer from late-life authorship–a time when the fires are damped and the events foreshortened by time. This one–by a woman still in her thirties–is an exception to nearly every rule of the genre.Not least for its electrifying readability: it consumed every free moment of the two days it took to finish it.Putting it [...]
My first introduction to David Baldacci was back in 1996 when People Magazine picked his first book, Absolute Power, as the “Page Turner of the Week”.I thought the premise of that book was phenomenal and I became an immediate fan.For some reason, I skipped over Total Control and went on to read his third and [...]
Fantastic – as much fun as the first three.I was a real-life wimpy kid and I did end up at West Point so this installment was even more fun for me.My daughter loves this series.Jeff Kinney delivers again – the “Diary” is so funny and fast-paced that even “reading wimps” can’t put the book down. [...]
OK, maybe not the last book you’ll ever need, but if you are a screenwriter or play one on TV, this just may be the BEST book you’ll ever need, or read, on the subject of how to break into the big screen big time as a writer of tall tales. Blake Snyder is a [...]
I don’t always love this author (know I’m in the minority) because some of her books are too fluffy for me.The conflicts in her stories usually arise from external elements, and I prefer books where-in the conflicts arise from elements within the characters’ relationships or even from within the characters themselves. (That was a mouth [...]