Month: January 2011
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Today
Like a Choose Your Own Adventure story Every day has numerous possibilities. Sadly, we cannot bookmark a page in life And must make choices Without being able to go back to said point When we find we’ve come to a gruesome end. Instead, we must bravely and confidently choose our path Some with great cynical…
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_Room_
_Room_ by Emma Donoghue This was probably one of the most interesting fiction novels that I’ve read in a long time in terms of a unique story from an unfamiliar perspective. Donoghue writes the entire novel from the point-of-view of Jack, a curious five-year-old, who shortly after his fifth birthday has to learn to shoulder…
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3 days left in January, really????
It feels like the past few months have been just a blur in my life. In fact, it’s like I’ve come out of a dream where I was sleep walking through my life. I think for the time-being the worst is over – so let me catch up. My post on depression was me peeking…
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_Cross Fire_
_Cross Fire_ by James Patterson Patterson continues to develop the character, Alex Cross, and his ongoing antagonist, Kyle Craig, in this novel. It has hints of being the last in the Cross series, but that’s just my own opinion. The story starts to get a bit predictable and too convenient from the clues of the…
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_Under the Banner of Heaven_
_Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith_ by Jon Krakauer This book was a doozy of a tale of the foundations and progress of the Mormon religion. Jon Krakauer writes in an easy-to-read journalistic style telling the story of the beginnings, divisions and transformations of the Latter Day Saints centered around the…
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Happy New Year!
Okay, so this post is a little bit late, but that’s the way things have been going lately. So, at least this will be written within the first month of the year. 😛 We have survived to experience 1-1-11 not to be seen again for another hundred years. In another 11 years we can see…
