Monday, April 6, 2009
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time' [AUDIOBOOK] [CD] [UNABRIDGED] (Audio CD)
Robert Jordan is a masterful storyteller who weaves a very believeable world full of deep characters. This is the story of a small village which is changed and how individuals in the village go out into the world and continue to change it. R.J. wrote this with the idea that a chosen Messiah would have complex emotions when he learned what his mission was and who he was. Fun to listen to, the readers are excellent with various voices and it makes doing menial tasks enjoyable.Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Speak
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
When listening to the author speak while on the set of the movie adaptation she said she awoke from a dream of a girl crying and was inspired to write it down and it became the book. "Write down your nightmares and not your dreams" she laughs.
When listening to the author speak while on the set of the movie adaptation she said she awoke from a dream of a girl crying and was inspired to write it down and it became the book. "Write down your nightmares and not your dreams" she laughs.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Fever 1763
Fever 1763 by Laurie Halse Anderson is her second novel (historical fiction) about the Yellow Fever epidemic that hit Philadelphia, then capital of the USA in the summer of 1763. One in ten perished in the epidemic and famous men including Thomas Jefefrson and George Washington fled the city during the epidemic. It is the story of a young girla dn her growing of age when she is seperated from her mother and later from her only family, her grandfather.
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