by Carol Cross | Jun 25, 2014 | Blog
Let’s start off with a few warnings about The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp. For social conservatives, this book has it all—all the reasons that such groups give for wanting to ban similar books from school libraries. This is NOT the book for you if you don’t want to...
by Carol Cross | Jun 22, 2014 | Blog
Yesterday, we had the funeral service and celebration of life for my friend Marcia, who died of cancer last month. One thing that I shared at the service was that one of my life lessons I took from Marcia was to retain the quality of being childlike–staying...
by Carol Cross | Jun 20, 2014 | Blog
OK, so I did it backwards. I went to see the movie of The Fault in Our Stars first and only just got around to seeing the movie of Divergent. Then I went back and checked my original review of the book, which I re-posted on this blog a day ago. I needed to check,...
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...
