Sketches of Life and Character – T.S Arthur

For my April reading, I read a book that I owned but had never read. “Sketches of Life and Character”  was published in 1853, and consists of several real stories that the author found amusing. I bought this in an old bookstore in Seattle, but had never got around to reading it. I enjoyed the…

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April: Divergent

For the month of April, I read the novel Divergent by Veronica Roth.  This book is about a girl named Tris living in a dystopian Chicago.  The city is separated into factions created to prevent war.  Each faction blames a different reason for war and fighting; selfishness, lying, cowardice, dumbness, and aggression, and each faction…

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March Reading

For March, I read a book I have read before, “Flowers for Algernon”. This book felt like a roller coaster the first time I read it, and I expected it to be easier this time around. It wasn’t. Flowers for Algernon evokes very strong emotions, especially towards the end. You see the main character Charlie…

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Digital Book Talks

  Looking for your next great book? There are many sites that have reading recommendations http://www.tor.com/2016/03/03/five-books-with-snarky-magicians/ http://www.teenreads.com http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com    

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Don’t just sit there! Read something!

Please stop saying you hate to read. You might as well be saying you hate delicious food or good days. Reading does nothing to you and everything for you. If you need more inspiration, think about Marley Dias’ one-girl mission to find 1,000 books about kids of color, not just ‘white boys and dogs’ as…

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Yellow Fever:1793

This book is about how Philadelphia is struggling to get past yellow fever. People are dying everyday. Matilda and her family are trying to survive the outbreak till the winter frost. Matilda is just trying to do the best for her family and trying not to get sick as well.

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Eragon

First things first: this is one of my all-time favorite books. This book is the first in its series. The book is set in a fantasy world were a young boy finds a stone which turns out to be a dragon egg throughout the story he learns to ride the dragon and discovers how to preform…

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