Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper
As you might have guessed from the title, this is a modern take on the Romeo and Juliet story. It takes place in Cincinnati, Ohio. Julio is a Mexican-American transfer student from Texas and Romiette is the African-American girl he meets in a chat room who happens to go to his school. They hit it off immediately but not everyone is happy. A new gang called the Devildogs doesn't think Romi should be with anyone who is not black and they are determined to keep it that way.
Highly Recommended
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Fab by Kieran Batts Morrow, Tiffany Anderson, Adreinne Carter & Tracy Richelle High
A chick-lit novel for African-Americans. 4 upper-middle class Black women, two of whom write for Eve, write about 4 upper-middle class, Black, ivy-league women trying to find love and work they enjoy.
It's decently written and enjoyable but definitely fluffy.
A chick-lit novel for African-Americans. 4 upper-middle class Black women, two of whom write for Eve, write about 4 upper-middle class, Black, ivy-league women trying to find love and work they enjoy.
It's decently written and enjoyable but definitely fluffy.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about searching for the past and finding yourself. Alex is the young Ukrainian who helps Jonathan on his search for the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Alex writes to Jonathan with his chapters about the search and Jonathan intersperses them with chapters about his family's history. Incredibly sad and really makes you think about the real meaning of good and evil.
Highly Recommended
A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about searching for the past and finding yourself. Alex is the young Ukrainian who helps Jonathan on his search for the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Alex writes to Jonathan with his chapters about the search and Jonathan intersperses them with chapters about his family's history. Incredibly sad and really makes you think about the real meaning of good and evil.
Highly Recommended
Saturday, September 03, 2005
The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher
Billy Bartholomew is dead but that isn't keeping him from helping out his best friend Eddie Proffit and narrating this story. Eddie has lost both his father and his best friend in less than a month's time and now he has stopped talking. That is until the ultra-conservative Reverend Tarter decides to use him to help ban a book.
A really simple story about complex things, classic Crutcher.
Highly Recommended
Billy Bartholomew is dead but that isn't keeping him from helping out his best friend Eddie Proffit and narrating this story. Eddie has lost both his father and his best friend in less than a month's time and now he has stopped talking. That is until the ultra-conservative Reverend Tarter decides to use him to help ban a book.
A really simple story about complex things, classic Crutcher.
Highly Recommended
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Y: The Last Man (volumes 1-4) by Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra
The premise of this comic book is that a sudden plague has hit the earth, killing every human, and other animal, with a Y chromosome. Somehow Yorick Brown and his pet monkey, Ampersand, have survived. What follows is their adventures as they travel with Agent 355 and biologist Dr. Mann to try to figure out a way to repopulate the earth. Parallel story lines involve Yorick's sister, Hero, joining the vigilante Amazons, his Congresswoman mother, and Israeli soldiers on a mission.
Highly Recommended
The premise of this comic book is that a sudden plague has hit the earth, killing every human, and other animal, with a Y chromosome. Somehow Yorick Brown and his pet monkey, Ampersand, have survived. What follows is their adventures as they travel with Agent 355 and biologist Dr. Mann to try to figure out a way to repopulate the earth. Parallel story lines involve Yorick's sister, Hero, joining the vigilante Amazons, his Congresswoman mother, and Israeli soldiers on a mission.
Highly Recommended
Brooklyn Rose by Ann Rinaldi
15-year-old Rose is the daughter of a plantation owner in Turn-of-the-Century South Carolina. After her older sister gets married, she finds that she also has a suitor: Rene Dumarest, the handsome, much older, French silk importer. Even though she marries him because of her family's financial situation, after they start making a life in Brooklyn, NY she realizes that maybe she loves him. Based on stories about the author's grandparents.
I didn't like it as much as some of her other books. Too slow and not enough conflict.
Recommended if you want a simple, chaste, period romance.
15-year-old Rose is the daughter of a plantation owner in Turn-of-the-Century South Carolina. After her older sister gets married, she finds that she also has a suitor: Rene Dumarest, the handsome, much older, French silk importer. Even though she marries him because of her family's financial situation, after they start making a life in Brooklyn, NY she realizes that maybe she loves him. Based on stories about the author's grandparents.
I didn't like it as much as some of her other books. Too slow and not enough conflict.
Recommended if you want a simple, chaste, period romance.
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