All posts tagged book review
The Reading Corner: The Factory Girls
By Paige Jurgensen Next year, the First Year class will be reading ‘Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China’, by Leslie T. Chang, which is a book that all Hood students should read. ‘Factory Girls’ is a collection …
The Reading Corner, The Night Circus
By: Paige Jurgensen “The Night Circus,” by Erin Morgenstern, is a novel unlike any I’ve read before. The novel is a bit confusing at first, because it jumps around
The Reading Corner: Chuck Palahniuk’s Damned
By: Paige Jurgensen How I feel about Chuck Palahniuk is that he probably has a garden in his backyard filled with the remains of dead virgins. I’m just saying:
Book Review: ‘P.S. I’m Eleven’
By: Paige Jurgensen “P.S. I’m Eleven (Surviving Haiti’s Quake)” by Mae Claire is a powerful story that speaks to the generation that witnessed a natural disaster. The short story
Book Review: ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’
By: Paige Jurgensen I would like to formally propose that people stop with the zombie trend. Why? Because the world is exposed to abominations like “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” The
Book Review: “The Weight of Silence”
By: Paige Jurgensen “The Weight of Silence” by Heather Gudenkauf is a dramatic family mystery mixed with a story of child abduction and just a hint of adultery. The novel begins
Book review: “Are you there Vodka, It’s Me, Chelsea”
By Paige Jurgensen Chelsea Handler’s book “Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea” allows me be the promiscuous, alcohol-soakedJerseygirl I’ve always wanted to be. “Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me,
“The Stuff of Legend”: A Dark Toy Story
By Paige Jurgensen “The Stuff of Legend” series is childhood on acid. So far, the graphic novel series written by Mike Raicht and Brian Smith consists of two books,
You Don’t Know Me, Ricky Martin
By: Paige Jurgensen The Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin is very talented -- but he should stick to singing. Ricky Martin’s “Me” is quite possibly the worst autobiography I’ve ever