Christine’s books to read and review –... Here is a list of the books I plan on reading and reviewing in the coming months. Please share your recommendations of good reads in the comments section. I look forward to your input. Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story by David Einhorn, Joel Greenblatt Michelangelo and The Pope’s Ceiling by...

A Thump From Upstairs: Starring Mr. Boo And Max &#... My four year old nephew picked “A Thump From Upstairs: Starring Mr. Boo And Max” out from a large pile of books on sale at our locale book store during a shopping excursion recently. I promptly chose to read it to him and my niece during lunch and to my surprise, they both loved it!  Enthralled in Keep’s lively prose, I had both of their attention and curiosity with what was going to happen next. “A...

Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein... The first time I read “Where The Sidewalk Ends”, I was around 12 years old and I loved it. Over the years I have read and re-read it several times, or at least parts of it – the love affair has never ended. Silverstein’s poetry style is his own: laid-back and conversational, filled with humor and wit, occasionally employing slang. His  simple pen-and-ink drawings are clever and charming. Although...

Rough Magic by Paul Alexander... Sylvia Plath  became infamous after her suicide  in 1963 and is celebrated for her poetry and semi-autobiographical, The Bell Jar. Plath’s troubled life gives Alexander much to interpret  as he  creates a water color portrait of a great  American poet. Alexander achieves this feat by “conducting some three hundred individual interviews with people who knew Plath” who he states ” a number of...