Monthly Archives: August 2009

Book Review: A Circle of Souls by Preetham Grandhi

A young girl, Janet, is murdered and another little girl, Naya, is the key to finding her murderer in Preetham Granhi’s A Circle of Souls.  Naya’s parents bring their daughter to the hospital after she nearly kills herself in a sleepwalking incident.  Naya’s doctor, Peter, tries to help the little girl, but soon realizes that there [...]
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What Book? Wednesday: High School Teachers and What Should Have Been

What Book? Wednesday Question: The list of one hundred popular books is making its way around the World Wide Web.  How many of these books that you have read signifies how “well read” you are.  However, there are hundreds of titles out there that our high school teachers did not have us read.  What book [...]
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Another Book List to Make Me Feel Uneducated

I found this list of books from I’m Lost in Books who found the list from Lit and Life who found it from Laura’s Reviews and now I’m copying it.  Ah the glories of the internet, the only place where we can copy material from others shamelessly and freely, and the only requirement is to [...]
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Book Review: The Queen’s Fool by Philippa Gregory

Hannah Green is a complicated character with layers of deception when she serves Queen Mary and Princess Elizabeth as the royal fool in Philippa Gregory’s novel, The Queen’s Fool.  Hannah and her father escape persecution as Jews in Spain and hope to find safety in England.  As Jews, their faith is forbidden in England and [...]
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Can Books Make You Dumb?

Can the old adage “you are what you eat” be applied to books? “You are what you read?” I’ve always wondered this because I like all sorts of books, from young adult to drama.  I love them all, yet I can’t help but feel that there are some books that I come away a smarter [...]
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