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”
Category Archives: Fiction
The Poisonwood Bible
Date Read: May 4 Author: Barbara Kingsolver Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: 5/5 When Nathan Price moves to the Congo in 1959, he brings his wife and four daughters with him. Over three decades, the family is broken down and reconstructed. I found it to be a remarkable novel. There is a strange moment in time,Continue reading “The Poisonwood Bible”
Girl, Woman, Other
Date Read: May 3 Author: Bernardine Evaristo Genre: Fiction Rating: 3/5 The novel follows the lives and struggles of twelve characters, most of whom are black and British. While the stories were excellent, I found it hard to get past the format and writing style. It felt a lot closer to poetry than anything else.Continue reading “Girl, Woman, Other”
Paradiso
Date Read: April 29 Author: Dante Alighieri Genre: Classics This is the third and final book of the Divine Comedy, preceded by Inferno and Purgatorio. I found Paradiso a little boring, particularly in comparison to the depictions of hell and purgatory in the other two parts of the Divine Comedy. In Paradiso everything is perfect,Continue reading “Paradiso”
Griffin and Sabine
Date Read: April 20 Author: Nick Bantock Genre: Fiction Rating: 5/5 Griffin and Sabine is a very short book, at only 46 pages long, but the story is intriguing, and it is told entirely through beautifully illustrated postcards and letters. The letters are impressive because each of them is separate from the book, able toContinue reading “Griffin and Sabine”
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.
The Plato Papers
Date Read: April 18 Author: Peter Ackroyd Genre: Fiction Rating: 4/5 In the future, orator Plato has been chosen to speak about the past. His topics include the comedian Sigmeund Freud, as well as Charles Dickens, the author of On the Origin of Species. A funny and strange book. I would rather despise the wholeContinue reading “The Plato Papers”
Inferno
Date Read: April 15 Author: Dante Alighieri Genre: Classics In the English class I am taking, we are reading the entirety of the Divine Comedy. I hadn’t ever read Inferno before, and the poetry was more beautiful than I expected. Overall, the Inferno was better than I expected it to be, and I am lookingContinue reading “Inferno”
Zone One
Date Read: April 10 Author: Colson Whitehead Genre: Post-apocalypic Horror Rating: 5/5 Zone One takes place months after the world falls to a zombie pandemic, and it follows a man trying to survive through the various stages of the zombie apocalypse. The book takes place over three days, but includes various flashbacks throughout. My onlyContinue reading “Zone One”
Dragon Teeth
Date Read: April 5 Author: Michael Crichton Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: 4/5 In 1876, Yale student William Johnson sets out on a paleontology expedition with Professor Marsh. He finds himself in the treacherous Wild West, a completely unknown landscape. Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, weaves together historical figures with fictional characters in order to tellContinue reading “Dragon Teeth”
Zoey's Year in Books 2020 