The Hour I First Believed: A Novel by Wally Lamb
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
At first I wasn’t so sure about this book . . . Eighty-odd pages into it, the protagonist/1st-person-narrator, Caelum Quirk, was a real jerk — one of those kind of people whom I avoid in real life. But the novel [...]
September 25th, 2009
The Hour I First Believed
June 4th, 2009
WICKED By Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
My review
rating: 3 of 5 starsThere was much in Gregory Maguire’s novel, WICKED, that tickled my fancy. Elphaba, the main character more commonly known as “The Wicked Witch of the West” in the Wizard of Oz, [...]
April 23rd, 2009
"Maya Running" by Anjali Banerjee
Maya Running by Anjali Banerjee
My review
rating: 4 of 5 starsIndian-born Maya Mukherjee attends middle school in a small town in Manitoba. Besides struggling with the usual issues of adolescence (including pimples and braces), Maya straddles the line between the two cultures, with neither foot firmly planted in either one. Maya [...]
April 2nd, 2009
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
My review
rating: 5 of 5 starsIn TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper Lee captures the essence of childhood amidst the tensions of a small southern town torn by prejudice and intolerance.
I don’t know how old I was when I first read TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD [...]
March 27th, 2009
"The Promise" by Chaim Potok
The Promise by Chaim Potok
My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars“The Promise” is a poignant story about a young Jewish man living in New York City during the aftermath of WWII. Studying to be a rabbi, Reuven Malter finds himself caught between conservative and liberal Judaism, a tension that has especial [...]
