Book of the Week: ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’
A Court of Thorns and RosesSarah J Maas2015, 419 pagesFantasyThe youngest daughter of a very poor family, Feyre is solely responsible for keeping her sisters and her father fed. She will do anything to keep them alive, including kill a wolf who may not be just a wolf.When she is stolen from her family by the wolf’s friend, by a monster, they don’t fight to keep her. Trapped in luxury, Feyre is plunged into a new world she doesn’t...
Book of the Week: ‘In a Dark, Dark Wood’
In a Dark, Dark WoodRuth Ware2015, 352 pagesEnglish Thriller What could be more fun than a bachelorette party? Anything, as it turns out. Introverted Lee, a writer who has lived in self-imposed isolation since a traumatic high school event, is invited to her former best friend’s bachelorette party. Although Lee hasn’t spoken to Clare in years, she reluctantly decides to attend. The party, which is taking place in an isolated glass...
Book of the Week: ‘Orphan Train’
Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline 2013, 273 pages Fiction Molly Ayer, a Penobscot Indian, is 17 and is very glad to almost be done with the foster care system, being bounced from home to home. She steals a book and has to do community service to stay out of juvenile hall; 50 hours of helping an elderly woman named Vivian clean out her attic.In 1929, when she is 9 years old, Vivian comes to New York City from Ireland, and soon finds...
Book of the Week: ‘Penguin Lessons’
The Penguin Lessons: What I Learned from a Remarkable BirdTom Michell2015, 219 pagesNonfiction In 1975 Englishman Tom Michell travels to take a job at a boy’s school in Argentina. During his trip he walks along a beach in Uruguay and is horrified to find hundreds of penguins who have died in an oil spill. There is one penguin still alive and looking at him fiercely. Michell captures the angry penguin in a string bag and takes it back...
Book of the Week: The Monkey and the Bee
The Monkey and the BeeC.P. Bloom 2015Children’s The Monkey and the Bee is a picture book that shows, in very few words, a struggle between a monkey and a bee who both want to eat a banana. At one point the monkey takes a bite of the banana and discovers that the bee was there first. The bee is now buzzing around in the monkey’s mouth! The monkey starts chasing the bee with a branch. But then a fierce lion appears on the scene. What...
