Emily is a young woman, in her early thirties who is helping her grandmother pack up the family farm. Her grandmother had sold the farm like most people in the area to developers. It is in her packing that she discovers a secret about her father, he had been married before he married her mother. We then travel back in time to see her father, Jack, and Libbie’s story. Jack and Libbie are opposites in town. Libbie lives on the lake in town where all […]
Wild
I had thought about picking up this book after the movie came out. I’m always one who wants to read the book before seeing the movie, and I had heard good things about the movie. However, I never really got around to it, until now. Wild is based in the authors travels on the Pacific Crest Trail. This is a trail that goes from Mexico to Canada. Cheryl hikes a good portion of it, starting in the Mojave desert. What caused Cheryl to want to […]
Dear Nobody
Mary Rose grew up in the 1990s. A time where the book reminds you that you documented your life in a diary instead of on social media. In Dear Nobody, we read from Mary Rose’s diary, in which she titles each entry with “Dear Nobody.” In her diary, we see her struggle with illness, abuse, arrests, addiction to alcohol and drugs, and rape. Through the diary, we see Mary Rose struggle with relationships. After moving to a new town, she struggles to make new friends. […]
Take Me With You
August Shroeder is trying to complete a trip to Yellowstone that he had planned to take with his nineteen year old son, that is before his sun passed away. Instead of making the trip with his son, he is taking the trip with his son’s ashes. Unfortunately, he runs into problems right away, and he ends up at a mechanics to fix his vehicle. It now looks like this trip that he had been saving for and planned on taking, wasn’t going to happen. With the […]
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
This story is from the perspective of Bruno, a nine year old boy living in Berlin, Germany. In the beginning, Bruno moves with his family from Berlin to a place that he calls “Out-with.” Throughout, you see his confusion about what’s going on around him. Why did his family have to move? Bruno wants to go back to Berlin where his friends are, and where his grandparents are. Looking out his bedroom window, he sees in the distance a fence, and beyond that fence, he sees […]
The Winter Over
Would you go to Antarctica for nine months, where it would be dark for two-thirds of the time you are there? A place that you would not be able to leave unless it was in an emergency? This is where we meet our characters. They have just spent the past three months in Antarctica and a small group is preparing to stay for the winter, for what is called the “Winter Over.” Most of the people at the base, only forty are staying behind. Just as […]
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