by Carol Cross | Jun 18, 2014 | Blog
Note: This is a reposting of a book review that I wrote in April 2012 when I originally read the book.I finally found a few minutes to write a review of the book Divergent by Veronica Roth. This is the first in a trilogy of books that some people are calling the...
by Carol Cross | Jun 17, 2014 | Blog
So the highly-anticipated movie adaptation of the current king-of-the-YA-novel-hill, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, has finally arrived. Like all the other enthusiasts who added up to $50 million in sales on the first weekend alone (not bad for a movie that...
by Carol Cross | Jun 15, 2014 | Blog
As happens with the vagaries of requesting books from the library, this book came on the heels of The Goldfinch and just before the release of the movie version of The Fault in Our Stars. Being juxtaposed between those two helped to highlight both the strengths and...
by Carol Cross | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog
On this day, the 70th anniversary of D-Day or the Normandy Invasion, I am thinking of my father-in-law, Jefferson Sugg. Mr. Sugg, or Granddaddy (as he was known in our house), served in the US Navy during World War II, and worked on one of the naval landing crafts...
by Carol Cross | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog
Wow! What a treat this book was!I requested this book from our library in February, the month I was laid up with a broken ankle, on the advice of my youngest brother, who is a wonderful writer himself. But, of course, it didn’t arrive until last week, when I...
