Still Alice Author: Lisa Genova Publisher: © 2007 (iUniverse, Genova), 2009 (Simon & Schuster) Genre: Genre Fiction / Women’s Fiction Subgenre: Medical, Domestic Life, Family Life Reviewer: Sara Rating: (3.5) Synopsis: Life for fifty-year old Alice Howland is full and busy. She’s a tenured cognitive psychology professor at Harvard, an expert in…
When my oldest was a baby, we avoided flying like the plague. He did not set foot on an airplane until he was almost 4 years old. What then, would possess us to take the not-quite 8 month-old on a plane? Family. And a big dose of crazy. We flew across the country to Arizona for my niece’s bat mitzvah…
Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site Author: Sherri Duskey Rinker Illustrator: Tom Lichtenheld Publisher: Chronicle Books © 2013 Genre: Children’s Books Subgenre: Construction, Family Life Reviewer: Sara Review: The end of the day at the construction site means rest and bedtime for all the machinery working there. Each type of equipment finishes the last of…
Curiosity and The Cat Her gait is stealthy, self-assured. She slips through the jungle without disturbing the undergrowth. High above and concealed by thick foliage, I follow her, studying. Hair, black as the night. Cream-colored skin stretches over sinewy muscles. She moves like a panther: A hunter, confident of her status. It would not be so…
All the Light We Cannot See Author: Anthony Doerr Publisher: Scribner © 2014 Genre: Literature & Fiction Subgenre: Historical Fiction Reviewer: Sara Synopsis: The lives of two European children are forever altered by the World War II and their predetermined meeting in the decimated French town of Saint-Malo. Marie-Laure grows up in Paris…
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