Date Read: May 14 Author: C.S. Lewis Genre: Fantasy Rating: 4/5 Edmund and Lucy return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace, and go on an adventure with Prince Caspian from island to island. Other Books in the Series: The Magician’s Nephew The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe The Horse and His Boy Prince CaspianContinue reading “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”
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Prince Caspian
Date Read: May 14 Author: C.S. Lewis Genre: Fantasy Rating: 4/5 Prince Caspian has never been one of my favorite Narnia novels. I’ve always felt that it’s slower than the other novels in the series, but I do like being introduced to Caspian, and I enjoy all of the books about Narnia. Other Books inContinue reading “Prince Caspian”
Artemis
Date Read: May 13 Author: Andy Weir Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 4/5 From the author of The Martian comes Artemis, a story of crime and drama that takes place entirely on the moon. Jazz is a young woman on the moon who seeks to earn money through smuggling, but she stumbles across something much larger.Continue reading “Artemis”
The Far Away Brothers
Date Read: May 11 Author: Lauren Markham Genre: Nonfiction Rating: 4/5 Twin brothers Ernesto and Raul flee north when Ernesto becomes involved in the gangs of El Salvador. In the United States, they disover an entirely different way of life that they must learn to navigate. The United States cannot at once be isolationist –Continue reading “The Far Away Brothers”
The Third Hotel
Date Read: May 7 Author: Laura van den Berg Genre: Fiction Rating: 4/5 When Clare arrives in Havana for a film festival, she spots her husband outside a museum. The problem? Richard died. A good story that explores grief, but I did not like the dialoge style. The two impulses cannot be separated. The desireContinue reading “The Third Hotel”
We Dream of Space
Date Read: May 5 Author: Erin Entrada Kelly Genre: Fiction Rating: 4/5 When the Challenger spaceship is launched in 1986, NASA sponsors groups of students all over the United States so that they can see the first teacher in space. Bird is one of those students, a middle school girl who dreams of going toContinue reading “We Dream of Space”
Second Sister
Date Read: May 1 Author: Chan Ho-Kei Genre: Mystery Rating: 4/5 When Siu-Man commits suicide, her older sister Nga-Yee knows that there’s more to the story. She recruits N, a hacker, to find out the truth, and stumbles across more than she bargained for in the process. The story is fast-paced once it gets started,Continue reading “Second Sister”
The Yellow House
Date Read: April 24 Author: Sarah M. Broom Genre: Memoir Rating: 4/5 Broom tells the story of her family and her life throughout the book, bringing together stories told by her siblings and other family members with beautiful narration. When a person dies in a place they become the place and nothing is ever theContinue reading “The Yellow House”
Purgatorio
Date Read: April 20 Author: Dante Alighieri Genre: Classics Another book for English class. Dante’s Divine Comedy continues, as Dante moves from Inferno to purgatory. While Inferno may be more widely known than Purgatorio, I still enjoyed reading Dante’s depiction of purgatory.
On the Road with the Archangel
Date Read: April 18 Author: Frederich Buechner Genre: Fiction Rating: 4/5 Two families are brought together when the angel Raphael comes to help them. Lots of adventure, problems, and angelic intervention.
Zoey's Year in Books 2020 