Book Review: EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published in 2005 by Houghton Mifflin, 326 pp.* Oskar Schell is a nine-year-old struggling with his grief after his father dies in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. One day as he is going through some of his father’s belongings, he finds a key with a very, very small clue which sends him throughout New York to find what the key unlocks. His desperate search keeps his father close as searches for impossible answers on one last scavenger hunt his father unknowingly provides. Wow. Just wow. This story is so unique. It is told mostly through Oskar’s point of view as well as through...
Read MoreBook Review-THE KITCHEN DAUGHTER by Jael McHenry
She says, “Hello uccellina.” The name she had for me, Little Bird, from the mouth that spoke it. I am hallucinating the voice as well. Low, sharp, familiar. The first time I tasted espresso I thought, ‘This is what Nonna sounded like.’ This is her. The whole Nonna, solid. Right here, sitting in the kitchen. Jael’s debut novel, originally published in hardcover in April of 2011, just came out as paperback December 20th. It has been on my To-Read list since forever and I finally got my hands on a copy to read over the Christmas break. Ginny Selvaggio is a young...
Read MoreBOOK REVIEW-Life of Pi by Yann Martel
“With just one glance I discovered the sea is a city. Just below me, all around, unsuspected by me, were highways, boulevards, streets and roundabouts bustling with submarine traffic…fish like trucks and buses and cars and bicycles and pedestrians were madly racing about, no doubt honking and hollering at each other.” The story is set in 1970′s India but only for a fraction of Martel’s tale as the Pacific blue serves at the story’s main backdrop. Pi is a young man from India but it’s political unrest forces his family to sell the zoo they run and all...
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