book review

The Dharma King, by B. G. Stroh, is a fast-paced adventure that you won't want to put down. It follows the story of Samuel Falk Simms Jr., the eldest son of a wealthy American family, as he flies to Tibet on a whim and finds himself caught up in the race to find the baby Panchen Lama.  Read More »

We all face death at one point in our lives. We witness the death of family members and friends, and face our own eventual demise. We listen to accounts of people who have died, and sometimes feel remorse and grief, and other times seeing it as some far off event, something not entirely affecting us. But how do people who have to deal with death and disease every day see it?  Read More »

Banned Book Review #13
Written by Poison_Ivy.  Read More »

Global warming is a reality for many people now, but sometimes with problems that are this large scale, it’s difficult to decide how to proceed in order to create change. Laurie David is one of the leading activists for global warming and in her book, she gives students (and adults) some insight on the issue, the facts, and what you can do to help.  Read More »

Banned Books Review #1
Written by Shimmeringstar  Read More »

As Henry David Thoreau puts it: “A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.” Whether you like it or not, any human that comes in contact with literature must be affected by it, it is unavoidable, and Azar Nafisi points this out in her book, Reading Lolita in Tehran.  Read More »

What is it that makes up darkness in one's heart? Does everyone have darkness? Or are people lucky enough to escape it? Are sin and darkness the same thing? In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow is continually consumed in darkness. Is this darkness eternal, or can he escape it?  Read More »

Written by David Klass, you don't know me is a novel about a fourteen-year-old boy who feels isolated from everybody in his life, including his mother.

When I first came across the book in a small, local bookstore that has since closed, the first thing I noticed about it was the excerpt that is actually written on the cover:

"You don't know me at all.  Read More »