by ta | Dec 11, 2007 | Surveys
This is the first of a series of “Read This!” surveys designed to encourage debate. We asked staff what books they were assigned to read in high school that they absolutely hated. Next week we’ll post the results of the second part of the survey in...
by ta | Dec 6, 2007 | Fiction
The immigrant experience is often a great topic for fiction. In this edition of Marie’s Monthly Minutes, we’ll look at three books that explore the adjustments that immigrants and children of immigrants have to make when they settle in America. Middlesex...
by ta | Dec 3, 2007 | Fiction, YA
There are certain books that are intended for teens that adults can’t help but read. The Book Thief is one of those books. It is probably unlike any other book you have ever read. First off, it’s narrated by Death. Yeah, that’s right, Death....
by ta | Nov 27, 2007 | Fiction, Mystery
Here’s a review from Julie: I really liked this book. It’s wonderfully quirky; a mystery, but not so much about the mystery as about the detectives — a flock of sheep. Have you ever wondered how sheep think? Well, I can’t say as I really have,...
by ta | Nov 19, 2007 | Adventure Classics, Fiction
“For a moment after the insult was hurled, the African went on eating, without looking up from the shatranj board, indeed without seeming to have heard the remark at all. Then, before anyone quite understood that calumny so fine went beyond the powers even of...
