tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-806094409845305922024-02-08T10:09:25.114-08:00Teeny TalesNJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-27666150837594617152021-07-19T12:35:00.002-07:002021-07-19T12:35:21.031-07:00It's about time<p> That I updated posts on this blog. I'm out of library school and have in fact retired from working in a library. With Covid 19 freaking me out every day, I am not even volunteering.</p><p>I have read a lot of good books though. I should share some.</p>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-91671804609696323082013-06-13T08:25:00.004-07:002013-06-13T08:30:10.689-07:00Small as an Elephant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Title:</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Small as an Elephant</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Author: </b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jennifer Jacobson</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Publication Date: </b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2011</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Number of Pages: </strong>275</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Part of a Series:</b> No</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">Abandoned children -- Juvenile fiction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"> Self-reliance -- Juvenile fiction</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">Survival -- Juvenile fiction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Elephants -- Juvenile fiction</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Geographical Setting/ Time Period:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Arcadia National Park, Maine campsite, now</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Main Character(s):</b> Jack, a small boy, abandoned by his mother</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Plot Summary:</b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> <span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Jack’s
mother has always been unpredictable but when Jack and his mom go on a camping
trip to Acadia National Park in Maine, she abandons him with no way to contact
her and very little money for food. Contacting authorities might get his mom in
trouble and he might be placed in the custody of the state so Jack determines
he must find his way back to his home in Boston with his only companion a small
toy elephant. He loves his mom and she at times is loving and fun but other
times she thinks and talks very fast and she forgets Jack. On the trip to
Acadia Jack wanted to stop and see Lydia, the only elephant in Maine. His mom
wouldn’t stop and Jack holds on to the hope he will yet see Lydia. Finding ways
to survive and keep moving are an intense adventure. The author does an
excellent job of describing Jack’s thought processes, explaining his fears and
his past experiences with his mentally ill mother. The resolution is hopeful
but realistic.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Appeal:</b> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The
book is appropriate for 5<sup>th</sup> through 8<sup>th</sup> grades and
addresses in an unflinching way the difficulties of living with a mentally ill
parent. Jack is a very compelling protagonist and the story holds the reader’s
interest.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Brief quote:</strong> "Elephants can sense danger. They're able to detect an approaching tsunami or earthquake before it hits. Unfortunately, Jack did not have this talent. the day his life was turned completely upside down, he was caught unaware.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Prizes or Awards: Sequoyah </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Reviewer=s Name:</b> Denilyn Jordan</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. Readers= Advisory Service in the Public Library 2nd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Chicago: ALA, 1997.<o:p></o:p></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-33169227981829571982013-06-13T07:41:00.001-07:002013-06-13T08:28:55.599-07:00I Shall Wear Midnight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>Title:</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> I Shall Wear Midnight</span><o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Author: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pratchett, Terry<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Publication Date: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2010</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"></span><b>Number
of Pages: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">349</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Part of a Series:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of October 2010, the
last book in the Discworld series, which began with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Color of Magic.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
the fourth book featuring Tiffany Aching (the first is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Wee Free Men).</i></span><br />
<em></em><br />
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LT=LibraryThing; NL=NoveList; RA=Readers’ Advisory Online</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Child Abuse (NL)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Miniature Persons (NL)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Fantasy (NL)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Persecution (JW)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Fairies (NL)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Teenage Witches (NL)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Villains (NL)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Hate (NL)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Memory (NL)</span><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b> </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Geographical
Setting/ Time Period:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set in the Discworld, a flat world supported
by four elephants on the back of a giant turtle, Great A’Tuin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Takes place in the Chalk region
(backcountry), and also briefly in the city of Ankh-Morpork.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Main Character(s):</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><u>Tiffany Aching</u>, a capable, sarcastic young witch</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Rob Anybody</span></u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">,
leader of a group of drinking, fighting, stealing supernatural beings called
the Nac Mac Feegle.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Jeannie the Kelda,</span></u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> Rob Anybody’s wife and the only female Kelda, she works magic.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Amber,</span></u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> an
abused child with a mysterious connection to the Kelda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Roland,</span></u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> stuffy
new Baron of the Chalk, formerly Tiffany’s sweetheart.</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Letitia,</span></u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">
Roland’s beautiful, rich, silly fiancée.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wishes she were a witch.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Preston,</span></u><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">
observant and philosophical guard.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Plot
Summary:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> Tiffany Aching has finished
her apprenticeship in the mountains and returned home to become the first witch
of the Chalk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she travels to
Ankh-Morpork to inform Roland that he is the new Baron, she finds herself
accused of murder and theft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
persecution she faces from familiar friends is only a symptom of an older, more
sinister force determined to drive out witchcraft.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Appeal:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> Plot-driven novel with serious themes applicable to
real world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although dark, the book has
a humorous tone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Characterization also
an important aspect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Includes
appearances of popular characters from other Discworld books, including the
Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Brief
quote: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“
‘You hear people talk about witches being burned, but I don’t reckon many real
witches ever did get burned unless they were tricked in some way; I think it
was mostly poor old women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Witches are
mostly too soggy, and it was probably a waste of good timber.’” (page 136)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Prizes
or Awards: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I Shall Wear Midnight</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> received a starred review
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kirkus.</i><b> </b>Terry Pratchett has
won numerous awards for his writing, including: </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">2009 <b>Writers' Guild Award</b> (Outstanding Contribution to
Children's Writing), 2004 <b>WH Smith People's Choice Award</b> <i>The
Wee Free Men </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(features Tiffany
Aching)<i> </i></span>2007 <b>British Book Awards Children's Book of the
Year</b> (shortlist) <i>Wintersmith </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(features Tiffany Aching).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Similar
Works:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Reviewer recommends the
following books as humorous young adult fantasy adventures with capable female
heroines, similar to Tiffany:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Howl’s Moving Castle</i> by Dianna Wynne
Jones, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Enchanted Forest Chronicles </i>by
Patricia Wrede (begins with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dealing with
Dragons</i>).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Reviewer=s Name:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> Joy Woods</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. Readers= Advisory Service in the Public Library 2nd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chicago: ALA, 1997.<o:p></o:p></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-86050073060892386902013-03-31T21:40:00.002-07:002013-04-04T20:50:34.685-07:00Women Who Eat Reading List<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><img src="http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9781439164631" width="80" /> Left Neglected</b> by Lisa Genova<br />
A fictional account of a mental handicap caused by a trauma sustained during a car accident.<br />
Novelist gives it 4 stars.<br />
<a href="http://search.ebscohost.com.pls.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&bquery=left+neglected&type=0&site=novp-live" target="_blank">Left Neglected</a><br />
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<b><img src="http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780375758621" width="80" /> Piano Shop on the Left Bank</b> by Thad Carhart<br />
Locals gather in a piano repair shop to discuss music, love and life.<br />
NoveList gives it four stars.<br />
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by Mike Dash<br />
Non-fiction account of the plant's history and its journey from East to West.<br />
NoveList gives it 3 stars. <br />
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<span class="medium-font">This book is about what happens when Japanese artifacts are found during the renovation of a Seattle hotel.</span><br />
<span class="medium-font">Historical fiction, character driven. Good Reads gives it 4 stars.</span><br />
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Three generations of Chinese women experience the modern world.<br />
Non-fiction. Novelist gives it 5 stars.<br />
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A history of the 1854 cholera outbreak in London.<br />
Non-fiction. both Novelist and GoodReads give it 4 stars. Suggested by Susannah.<br />
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/><b> Good Evening Mrs.Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes</b> by Mollie Panter-Downes.<br />
English short stories printed in in the New Yorker between 1939 and 1944.<br />
GoodReads gives it 4 stars. Suggested by Ellie.</div>
NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-5146593332311901432013-03-24T14:44:00.000-07:002013-03-24T14:45:44.195-07:00Some Kind of Fairy Tale<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Annotation for Adult Fiction: Psychological fiction, urban fantasy<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. Readers Advisory Service in the Public Library 2nd. Chicago: ALA, 1997.</span></div>
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Author: Graham Joyce<br />
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Title: Some Kind of Fairy Tale<br />
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Publication Date: 2012 Number of Pages: 310 Part of a Series: No<br />
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Subject Headings:</div>
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<li>Urban fantasy</li>
<li>Missing persons</li>
<li>Fairy tales</li>
<li>English small towns</li>
<li>Memory</li>
<li>Ancient woods</li>
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Geographical Setting/Time Period: Suburban/small town Great Britain, current time<br />
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Main Character(s):</div>
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<li>Tara - a sixteen year old girl who goes missing for 20 years and then returns home.</li>
<li>Richie - Tara's boyfriend at the time of the disappearance. He is a musician who never seemed to make it in the search for fame and fortune.</li>
<li>Peter - Tara's brother and friends with Richie. They haven't spoken since Tara went missing</li>
</ul>
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Plot Summary: A conflicted teenager acting on impulse loses herself in a local forest. Although a search is made, the girl has disappeared. Twenty years pass before she turns up on her parents' doorstep. No one believes her tale of abduction or description of the place that she has been.<br />
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Characterization: The story is melancholic and reflective.<br />
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Storyline: Character-driven and leisurely paced with lots of description and character development</div>
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Writing style: The author is engaging and readable.<br />
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Brief quote: "Oh yes, the bluebells were out in May. Do you remember how they were? Their perfume stole the sense right out of your head." p.38<br />
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Prizes or Awards: Library Journal Top 10, 2012<br />
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Similar Works: Songs for the Missing by Stewart O'Nan. This is another story about a teenager who goes missing and the people who search for her.<br />
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Reviewer’s Name: Nancy Rimassa<br />
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NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-29962993721959398002013-02-22T11:28:00.002-08:002013-02-22T11:31:19.231-08:00The Passage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. Readers= Advisory Service in the Public Library 2nd. Chicago: ALA, 1997.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br />
Author: Justin Cronin<br />
Title: The Passage <br />
Publication Date: 2010<br />
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Number of Pages: 766<br />
Part of a Series: the first in a triology<br />
Subject Heading(s): Science fiction, literary fantasy<br />
Geographical Setting/ Time Period: western United States, the near future and following 100 years<br />
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Main Character(s): </div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Amy - a six year old abandoned child who is deliberately infected with an experimental virus by the US military</li>
<li>Peter - a survivor of the collapse of American civilization</li>
<li>Alicia - a survivor of the collapse but by temperament and training, an advocate of the military establishment</li>
<li>The 12 - survivors of the experiment who are the instigators of the collapse</li>
</ul>
Plot Summary: This is another apocolyptic novel of the American future. Poor choices are made in regard to gene manipulations and experimentation. Containment fails and chaos ensues. A savior emerges 100 years later with a cure for the horrifying virus.<br />
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Appeal: The storyline is character-driven and often bleak. The reader may feel the exhaustion and depression that the characters exhibit. The author is able to generate suspense with his compelling style.<br />
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Prizes or Awards: The book received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. It made it to Library Journals Top 10 List for 2010.<br />
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Similar Works: Similar works include Stephen King's Cell and Dan Simmo' Carrion Comfort.<br />
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Reviewer’s Name: Nancy Rimassa<br />
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NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-1338072425795315472013-01-28T12:39:00.004-08:002013-01-28T13:04:06.482-08:00Sufficient Grace<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sufficient-Grace-ebook/dp/B000GCFXZE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1359406768&sr=8-3&keywords=sufficient+grace" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Product Details" class="productImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S-AKiDFqL._AA160_.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Author:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Darnell Arnoult<i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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2006<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Pages:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 299<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Aging<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mental
health - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sufficient-Grace-ebook/dp/B000GCFXZE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1359406768&sr=8-3&keywords=sufficient+grace" target="_blank">Sufficient Grace</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Artists - Fiction<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Family </span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">fiction<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Female self-expression<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Interracial
relationships<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Missing persons<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Southern stories about l</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">oss<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Schizophrenics<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">family<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Widows<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Southern states<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Women
(any adjective you can think of)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Geographical Setting/Time Period:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> North
Carolina and Virginia/Recent past<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Gracie Hollaman</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, a woman of middle age who
begins to hear voices, discovers a talent for drawing and leaves her husband of
30+ years.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ed Hollaman,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a man who
cannot boil an egg left to fend for himself discovers how to cook when he grows
bored with TV dinners<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mama Toot Riley,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">an elderly woman of color and matriarch in her Virginia
farmhouse<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mattie Riley,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a grieving widow, amazing cook and reluctant step-grandmother, she is
Toot’s daughter-in-law</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Plot Summary:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Gracie
leaves home, commanded by the voice of God</span>. She wrecks her car and is
later found, asleep on a grave. Her finders interpret her presence as a sign
from the Lord and move her to their home. A search for the missing woman is
unsuccessful until Gracie is recognized. Her therapy and subsequent care provide
the rest of the story.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Appeal:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pacing </b>is relaxed but interest is kept
high by switching to different character viewpoints<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Characterization</b> is typical for this
genre. Lots of women, each with a story, and a couple of men to add conflict,
make the reading move along. Individual personalities tangle around each other,
weaving a family of caring. In the end all the problems are resolved. The issue
of women as caregivers who want to create rather than respond is the core issue.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">frame</b> alternates between the urban
home of Ed and Gracie and the rural farmhouse and community of Toot and Mattie.
Although the story is told in third person, the reader is privy to a great deal
of interior dialogue.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Brief
quote:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“It’s not enough to paint Jesus and all these Bible characters on fenders
and hoods and steering wheels,” Sammy says. “She’s painting fairies all over
them, too. I think she’s crazy as a bat.” (103)</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Prizes or Awards:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Starred review, Publishers’ Weekly<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Similar
Works:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Black Mountain Breakdown</i> by Lee Smith. Story of a southern woman
who struggles to find a role that fits her best, returns to scene of childhood
comfort (Novelist)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Reviewer’s
Name:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Nancy
Rimassa</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Adapted
from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. <i>Readers= Advisory Service in the
Public Library</i> <i>2<sup>nd</sup></i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Chicago: ALA, 1997.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-28348212540158802762012-01-29T11:43:00.000-08:002012-01-29T12:01:29.047-08:00The Night Circus - Adult Fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><v:rect fillcolor="black" id="_x0000_s1026" o:allowincell="f" stroked="f" strokeweight="0" style="height: 0.95pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 1in; margin-top: 0px; mso-position-horizontal-relative: page; position: absolute; text-align: left; width: 468pt; z-index: -251658752;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <v:fill color2="black"> <w:wrap anchorx="page"> <w:anchorlock> </w:anchorlock></w:wrap></v:fill></span></span></v:rect><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Author</span>: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Erin Morgenstern. This is a debut novel.</span></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Subject Heading(s):</span> </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> Fantasy fiction</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Magic</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Magicians</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Competition</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Circus</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Games</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Circus performers</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Good and evil</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Geographical Setting/Time Period</span>:</strong> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">London and Boston in the 19th century</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> although the rest of the world is involved in the circus's travels.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Main Character(s): </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Celia Brown: one of the game-players. She is six years old when the story begins. Her father is her trainer.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Marco: the second game-player. He is rescued from a London orphanage and trained in the ways of the game by his benefactor.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><strong>Secondary but important characters:</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Prospero: a magician, father of Celia.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Alexander: also a magician, benefactor and trainer of Marco.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Widget and Poppet: twins born on opening night of the circus</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Bailey Alden Clarke: a dreamer and contemporary of Widget and Poppet. He loves the circus and Poppet as well.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Chandresh Lefevre: an organizer of lavish events, inordinately lucky with returns on his dollar.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in;"><br />
</div><div class="Quick1" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Plot Summary: </span></b></span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two ancient magicians wager on the skills of two young people whom they train especially for the game. The venue for the challenge is a circus.</span> Romance, intrigue and details describing the circus acts push the story through the time of telling. The players grow weary of the game and must struggle for a solution.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<div class="Quick1" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Appeal: </span></b></span></span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"></span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">The tone of the book is romantic but not maudlin. There is mystery and delight in the lush descriptions of both the characters and the settings.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Brief quote: </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"></span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Twelve of the fire performers quietly enter the courtyard with small platforms that they set up along the perimeter like numbers on a clock. Precisely one minute before the hour, they each ascend their respective platforms and pull from their backs shimmering black bows and arrows. At thirty seconds before midnight, they light the tips their arrows with small dancing yellow flames. Those in the crowd who had not noticed them previously now watch in wonder. At ten seconds before the hour, they raise their bows and aim the flaming arrows at the waiting well of curling iron. As the clock begins to chime near the gates, the first archer lets his arrow fly, soaring over the crowd and hitting its mark in a shower of sparks. (p. 93)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<div class="Quick1" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Prizes or Awards: </span></b></span></span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"></span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Starred reviews in <em>Booklist</em>, <em>Library Journal</em>, <em>Publishers' Weekly</em> and <em>Kirkus</em>. <em>Novelist</em> gives it a blue ribbon which I assume means First Prize!</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Similar Works: </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"></span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><em>Nights at the Circus</em> by Angela Carter. A cast of eccentric characters, unconventional stories and the circus as a setting ties these two titles together. <em>Nights at the Circus</em> is not quite as dark in tone as <em>The Night Circus</em> but does have a similar feel. <em>(Novelist</em>)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Reviewer’s Name:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Nancy Rimassa</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. <i>Readers= Advisory Service in the Public Library</i> <i>2<sup>nd</sup></i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chicago: ALA, 1997.</span></span></span></div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-57920777286586558472011-12-21T20:29:00.000-08:002012-01-29T11:49:28.958-08:00Song Yet Sung - Historical Fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Author: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">James McBride<i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><b>Publication Date: </b>2008 <b> </b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><b>Number of Pages: </b>368</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Geographical Setting/Time Period: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">19<sup>th </sup>Century Chesapeake Bay Region (1861-1865)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Main Character(s): </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Liz Spocott (Strong and beautiful runaway who sees the future);</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Patty Cannon (Heartless, wicked mass slave trader);</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Denwood Long (A troubled sympathetic slave hunter);</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Woolman (A kind feral black man); </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Amber (generous and helpful slave who knows “the code”); </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Kathleen Sullivan (Kind widow who treats her slaves like family)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Plot Summary: </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Liz is an injured runaway slave who can see the future in her dreams; she helps 14 other runaways escape from Patty Cannon’s attic. Patty and her posse are in constant pursuit of the runaways. “The code” protects those who know it in finding assistance in their attempts to make it to the freedom line. When two young boys, one black one white, vanish the town scrambles to find them and everyone begins to realize who can be trusted, regardless of skin color.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Appeal:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">This is a slow paced novel where the characters quest for freedom is intricately described. McBride uses authentic dialect between the characters to tell the story of the runaway slaves. The search for truth and freedom add to the sense of anticipation throughout the book with an overlying bleak tone. The dual perspective that McBride offers of the Underground Railroad and “the code” with references to Harriet Tubman and the future of Martin Luther King will appeal to readers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Brief quote: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">“Them dreams you got, he said, the children that’s fat and running round, Killing each other. The colored men who dress up as boys, they ain’t no different from the folks around here. Some is up to the job of being decent, and some ain’t.”(160).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Prizes or Awards: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">None.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Similar Works:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">The Color of Water: a Blackman’s tribute to his white mother </span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">by James McBride (similar details regarding African American Men; mother and son relationships; and ethnic identity)–Reader’s Advisory Online</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Someone Knows my Name </span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">by Lawrence Hill (Similar themes regarding slaves and African American women)–NovelistPlus</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Reviewer’sName:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">LenoreSt.John</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">AdaptedfromSaricks,JoyceG.andNancyBrown.<i>Readers=AdvisoryServiceinthePublicLibrary2<sup>nd</sup></i>.Chicago:ALA,1997.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br />
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</div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-87463143259092487512011-12-19T20:38:00.000-08:002011-12-19T20:41:04.322-08:00The Paris Wife - Historical Fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Author</b>: Paula McLain <b>Publication Date:</b> 2011 <b>Number of Pages</b>: 318</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Geographical Setting/Time Period:</b> 1920-25, the jazz age in Paris</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Main Characters</b>:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hadley Hemingway - the first wife of Ernest Hemingway. She is deeply in love with Ernest, supportive of his vision to be a great writer. but dependent on him to give her life purpose.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ernest Hemingway - a charming, moody, selfish young man. He is driven by demons to write. His community of friends allow a patron supported lifestyle that seems unrealistic by today's standards.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Plot Summary: </b>Friends of friends, two young people meet in Chicago and fall in love. They marry and move to Paris, pursuing the young man's dream to become a writer. The young woman, a musician of some talent, allows her skill to remain only a peripheral part her life, choosing to support her husband in his efforts. Their circle of friends supports a lifestyle that seems unrealistic by today's standards. The young man is a philanderer and eventually is forced to choose fidelity or divorce</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Appeal:</b> Character driven, the tone of the book is romantic. Based on historical fact, there is an inevitability to the narrative. There is a small sense of world-building as the culture of the Paris group in the 1920s is hinted at.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Brief quote</b>: "I closed my eyes and let meyself fall, barreling down over the hard bumps. I'd had so much to drink I couldn't feel a thing -- nothing but a thrilling sense of wildness and freedom. It was a kind of euphoria, really, and fear was a key part of it." (p. 21)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Prizes or Awards:</b> Starred reviews in Kirkus and Library Journal</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Similar Works</b>: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan,</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Reviewer’s Name</b>: Nancy Rimassa</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. Reader’ Advisory Service in the Public Library 2nd. Chicago: ALA, 1997.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-2929581568584329352011-12-17T19:39:00.000-08:002011-12-17T19:44:29.996-08:00The Linnet Bird - Historical Fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Author</b>: Linda Holeman <b>Publication Date</b>: 2004 </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Number of pages:</b> 376 </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Geographical Setting/Time Period:</b> 1823-1840; Liverpool, England; Calcutta, India; Kashmir;</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Main Characters:</b> </div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Linnet Gow (aka Linnet Smallpiece, then Linnet Ingram): damaged girl with a strong sense of self. </li>
<li>Shaker (Geffrey) Smallpiece: good hearted librarian and amateur herbalist with palsied hands who helps Linny escape the streets. F</li>
<li>aith Vespry (then Snow): Linny’s spirited friend who convinces her to come to India. </li>
<li>Somers Ingram: Linny’s sadistic husband who shares a secret from the past with her. </li>
<li>Daoud: Pushtun chief, Linny’s first love. </li>
<li>David: Linny and Daoud’s child</li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Plot Summary:</b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">At age 11, Linnet is sold into prostitution. She works until the age of seventeen, when Shaker befriends her and gives her a new identity as his cousin. Later she accompanies her friend Faith to India. She discovers Somers’ predilections, and he in turn figures out that she is not what she seems either. He threatens to expose her past until she agrees to a marriage of convenience with him. Later, Linny and Faith go on a trip to a far off town, with disastrous results. Linny ends up in Daoud’s comfortable, friendly village in Kashmir. She and Daoud fall in love but he must leave, so she goes back to Calcutta, where she finds she is pregnant with his child. She cleverly convinces Somers that the baby is his, and dulls her senses with opium after the baby is born. Somers puts all the pieces together and figures out who Linny really is, and that they have a terrible connection from the past. He threatens to have her institutionalized to keep all these secrets. The situation looks hopeless, but Linny is a very tough woman. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Appeal:</b> This rather lurid, fast paced novel has rich detail of the Victorian Liverpool underworld, the British Raj era of India, and the landscape and social customs of same. The characters are intriguing, human and flawed. The people we care the most about change somewhat for the better over the course of the story. The novel combines historical detail and an engaging if somewhat predictable plot with a small amount of intense romance.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Brief Quote: “Everywhere, brilliant colors swarmed; I had to close my eyes for a moment to distinguish what I was seeing. Women’s saris in bright pink, orange and red, carts heaped with unfamiliar fruit and vegetables. Dark faces under white turbans. As we drew nearer the pier, I breathed in scents I couldn’t identify but which I was sure, from my reading, must be jasmine, sandalwood, cloves and ginger. But there was something else. Underneath it all there was a foetid, cloying odor, of urine, dirt and decay, A deep smell of rot that I recognized from the seeping cellars in Liverpool’s meanest courts” (p149). </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Similar Works:</b> The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber is also a vividly detailed historical fiction about Victorian society and underworld with a very sympathetic main character. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters takes place in the same era among the same kind of people, but is more of a gothic/mystery. The Observations by Jane Harris is also a mysterious Victorian novel. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-6822250698754588342011-12-15T21:02:00.000-08:002011-12-15T21:02:55.901-08:00Fire in Beulah - Historical Fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Author</b>: Rilla Askew <b> Pub. Date</b>: 2001 </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Pages</b>: 376 </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Geographical Setting/Time Period</b>: Tulsa, OK / 1920-21</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Main Characters:</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">• Althea Dedmeyer- secretive, disagreeable, and insecure wife of a wildcatter; </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">• Graceful Whiteside- Althea’s proud and enigmatic African-American housemaid; </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">• Japheth Whiteside- Althea’s violent, cunning, roustabout brother. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">• Franklin Dedmeyer- a jovial and driven wildcatter.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Plot Summary</b>: </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Althea Dedmeyer (nee Whiteside) married into Tulsa’s high society when she found Franklin, a driven wildcatter with a kind heart. Secure in her station but emotionally dissatisfied and struggling with inner turmoil, she often releases her frustrations on her African-American housemaid, strong, deliberate Graceful. When Japheth Whiteside, Althea’s dangerous roustabout brother, arrives in Tulsa, his machinations threaten to collapse Althea’s carefully constructed reality, destroy Franklin’s oil partnership and hopes of tapping the next big gusher, and propel Tulsa society closer to racial violence. As racial tension explodes into the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, Japheth stokes the hatred and Althea struggles to come to terms with African-Americans as real people with families and lives as she tries to help Graceful through the riot and back to her family. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Appeal:</b> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">• Pace- leisurely, significantly picks up near the end; </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">• Characters- unique and intimately portrayed; lifelike and relatable; </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">• Storyline- character-driven, layered and complex; </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">• Frame- engrossing, transporting, vivid, central to the story; </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">• Tone- ominous </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Brief quote</b>: “Althea snatched up the hat from the ally floor and reached her in an instant; she said again, “That was not your brother? Hear me?” Because she was unwilling that it be so. Because if they were going o drag niggers behind cars it should be nameless niggers, bad niggers, dangerous ones who raped white women and carried knives in their boots, not little boys who stared solemnly from photographs, and Althea said it again, hissed the words, “That wasn’t him!”” (p.320)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Prizes or Awards</b>: American Book Award 2002; Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award 2003</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Similar Works</b>: </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Harpsong</i> or <i>The Mercy Sea</i>t, also by Rilla Askew (style, historical fiction, setting); </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>The burning: massacre, destruction, and the Tulsa race riot of 1921</i> by Tim Madigan (nonfiction on same topic); </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Mean Spirit</i> by Linda Hogan (OK, race relations, oil industry, 1920s)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*All similar works and comparisons found through NoveList.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Reviewer’s Name</b>: Cyndi Selinger</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. Readers= Advisory Service in the Public Library 2nd. Chicago: ALA, 1997.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-57852900138663678372011-12-13T21:24:00.000-08:002011-12-15T20:49:03.548-08:00Code Talker - Historical Fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Author:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> Joeseph Bruchac <b>Publication Date</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">2005 </span></span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Number of Pages:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> 231</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 3in; text-indent: -3in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Setting:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> United States and Occupied Pacific Islands/ World War Two 1943-1945<i> </i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Main Character:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Ned Begay- intelligent and eager Navajo student; loyal, capable, and strong Marine</span></span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Plot Summary: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">A grandfather addressing his grandchildren speaks of his life as a Navajo Marine. He begins with his time in mission school where he was taught the Navajo language was wrong and useless. Later he becomes a member of the elite group of code talkers for the Marine Corps in World War Two. His native tongue helped the US create an unbreakable code used for the most important messages in the war. He discusses his personal experiences in the war. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -1in;"><br />
</div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Appeal: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Story line follows the life of the main character; Character fitting for the time period; Conversational style (first person) generates a quick pace but still historically and statistically detailed; Minimal graphic violence; Appeal to adults who read YA novels, interested in Native American literature, and/or enjoy personal accounts of war (fictional). </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -1in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Brief quote:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> “Speaking. Speaking through that day and the next and the next. Even when our voices grew hoarse, we did not stop. Our Navajo nets kept everything connected like a spider’s strands spanning distant branches. The winds of batter lever broke our web. As the battle for Iwo Jima raged all around up, our voices held it together” (187). </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Prizes or Awards:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> ALA Notable Children's Books Older Readers Category: 2006; YALSA Best Books for Young Adults: 2006; Starred Reviews in <i>Booklist </i>and <i>Kirkus; </i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Similar Works:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> <i>Heroes Don't Run: A Novel of the Pacific War</i> by Harry Mazer: first person; personal war account; historical fiction; teen historical fiction; WW2 in the Pacific (found on NL, selected by reviewer) </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -1in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Windtalkers: A novelization</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> by Max Allen Collins: same subject matter; fast paced (found on NL, selected by reviewer) *movie tie-in, also available on DVD </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -1in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">The Pacific</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> HBO miniseries (Nonfiction companion book of same title by Hugh Ambrose): World War Two in the Pacific (selected by reviewer)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Reviewer’s Name:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> Julia Robinson</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><br />
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</div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-38627263415819668732011-12-12T19:50:00.000-08:002011-12-21T20:31:47.053-08:00The Master Butchers Singing Club - Historical Fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Author:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Louise Erdrich</span><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Publication Date:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> 2003</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Number of Pages: </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">389</span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Geographical Setting/Time Period:</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><i> </i>Argus, North Dakota, 1918 - 1954</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Main Character(s):</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Delphine Watzka</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">, a strong, quirky, capable young woman</span><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Fidelis Waldvogel, </span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">a German immigrant, and the character that gives structure to the story.</span> <b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Cyparian Lazarre, </span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">a gay acrobat and companion to Delphine.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Eva Kalb, </span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">wife to Fidelis</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">German immigrants between the two world wars create a life and business in a small town on the American plains. Locals and their stories are woven into the family’s tale when Fidelis starts a singing club for men. The family and the town endure through illness, accident, murder and finally the Great Depression. </span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Appeal:</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Pacing – </span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">The story is told at a relaxed pace. It is richly-layered and unfolds slowly as the characters think about the way their lives have turned.</span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Characterization – </b>The characters are painted using details from the daily routines of their lives. Folks drift into the story and become a part of it without fanfare.</span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Storyline – </b>is character-driven, told in third person with several viewpoints offered to the reader</span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Frame – </b>The story begins on two separate continents, chapters alternating briefly between two sets of characters. Soon the separate parts are joined by the actions of the characters and the story moves more quickly.</span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tone – </b>is somewhat melancholy and introspective although there are moments of violence and suspense.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Brief quote: </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">“Step-and-a-Half hummed in her sleep and sank deeper into her own tune, a junker’s pile of tattered courting verse and hunter’s wisdom and the utterances of itinerants or words that sprang from a bit of grass or a scrap of cloud or a prophetic pig’s knuckle, in a world where butchers sing like angels.”</span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Prizes or Awards:</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Finalist for National Book Award, America’s preeminent literary prize.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Similar Works:</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> My Antonia </span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Willa Cather (character-driven, relaxed pace, introspective story about immigrants), Novelist.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Reviewer’s Name:</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Nancy Rimassa</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></i></div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003IJYWSQ/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=teeny08-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003IJYWSQ"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL110_&ASIN=B003IJYWSQ&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=teeny08-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" ></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=teeny08-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B003IJYWSQ" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><br />
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</div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-86085177091625540452011-09-04T16:32:00.000-07:002011-09-04T16:32:14.409-07:00Best Free Reference Web Site 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Looking for an ebook? Go here <a href="http://openlibrary.org/">http://openlibrary.org/</a></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-80736803336820527962011-06-29T15:50:00.000-07:002011-12-13T21:22:35.561-08:00The Bird Sisters - Domestic fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=teeny08-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0307717968" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />Author</b>: Rebecca Rasmussen<o:p></o:p></span> <span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Publication Date:</b> 2011<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Number of Pages</b>: 290<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Setting:</b> Rural Wisconsin </span><br />
<div class="LeftallignedNormanl" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Time Period</b>: Now with flashback memories to the summer of 1947 <o:p></o:p></span></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;">Main Characters:<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li> <span style="font-family: Century Gothic;">Milly – sixteen year old beauty with emerald eyes, she is a placatory and a good cook. She is in love with the son of her father’s employer.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;">Twiss – the younger sister, a wild child who never wears a dress or does anything anyone tells her to do. She loves her golf pro father and under his tutelage has become proficient at golf</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;">Bett – the cousin from Minnesota, she is slightly older, sent for the summer to keep her out of the way as her parents go through getting a divorce. She is plain and very poor.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Plot Summary:</b> This book tells a charming yet sober tale of two girls struggling to grow up amid family turmoil and poverty. The sisters can see that their parents have grown far apart but refuse to see the reason for it. Their father is a terrible provider in an era when that is what men did. Their mother coming from a more privileged family cannot envision the tasks that must be done to keep her family alive and well. The children try hard to bring their father in from the barn where he has gone to live.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="LeftallignedNormanl" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;">Bett, a cousin, daughter of the mother's sister, arrives and brings with her a storm of knowledge about love, truth or consequences, and something even more devious, which threatens to cripple the family. Misunderstandings and opportunity too enticing to be turned down drive the family farther and farther apart.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Appeal:</b> Bittersweet but good-natured, the pace is slow and character driven.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Brief quote</b>: “Whenever her mother had been particularly unhappy in the past, she’d tell the story of how she and her aunt had given up their inheritances and married for love.</span><br />
<div class="LeftallignedNormanl" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;">“We weren’t given what we were promised,” she’d say.</span></div><div class="LeftallignedNormanl" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;">“What were you promised?” Milly would say.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Century Gothic;">“I don’t remember any more.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><b>Prizes or Awards:</b> Starred review in Library Journal<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><b>Similar Works:</b> While My Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky. This is a story of a sister who lives in her older siblings shadow and the sacrifices that the relationship demands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><b>Reviewer's Name:</b> Nancy Rimassa</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library 2nd Edition. chicago. ALA, 1997.</span><br />
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</div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-54850398097615059742011-05-24T20:18:00.000-07:002011-05-24T20:19:04.228-07:00The Last Picture Show<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Author:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> McMurtry, Larry</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Title:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Last Picture Show</i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Publication Date:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> 1966 (1<sup>ST</sup> pub.) 1979 (Penguin Books) </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Number of pages:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> 220 p. (trade pbk.)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Part of a Series:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Last Picture Show series, book #1 (4 books in series)</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Subject Heading(s):</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Adultery </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Coming of age </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Dating </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Death </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">High school seniors </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Literary fiction </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Male friendship </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Man woman relationships </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Oil workers </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Psychological fiction </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Rich and poor </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Small towns </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Teenagers – Sexuality </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Thalia, Texas </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The Fifties (20<sup>th</sup> century) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Western stories </span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Geographical Setting / Time period:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Thalia, Texas (imaginary place) / late 1940s – early 1950s</span> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Main Character(s):</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sonny – a handsome, introspective young man, given to bouts of depression and loneliness</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Duane – Sonny’s friend, Duane is less reflective but hopelessly in love with the town’s prettiest girl</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Ruth Popper – a small but pretty woman who seems withdrawn, tired, and nervous most of the time</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Plot Summary:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Sonny and his best friend, Duane, navigate the perils of late adolescence in the small town of Thalia, Texas. Although the boys think they are practically grown men, Sonny finds he has a lot to learn when he meets Ruth Popper, the football coach’s forty-year old wife. Sonny and Duane learn about life, death, betrayal, and love in this coming of age tale. </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Appeal:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Characterization is the main appeal factor for this book. The main characters are fully developed and there are a lot of interesting secondary characters. The frame of the small Texas town of Thalia is also very important, as is the bittersweet coming of age aspect of the story. McMurtry’s elegant, yet direct language makes for an engrossing story. </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Brief quote:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> “She was silent a moment. ‘Do you know what it means to be heartbroken?’ she said. ‘It means your heart isn’t whole, so you can’t really do anything wholeheartedly.’” (Ruth talking to Sonny, p. 97)</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Prizes or Awards:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters in 1967 (has won this for two other titles as well)</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Similar Works:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Cormac McCarthy – Border Trilogy (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All the Pretty Horses</i> 1<sup>st</sup> book) – Texas author ; stories of the west ; adolescents and 1950s</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">John Irving – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The World According to Garp</i> – strong character development with good dialogue</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Ken Kesey – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sometimes a Great Notion</i> – vivid characters, strong dialogue</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Notes:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Made into a movie starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, and Cybill Shepherd in 1971</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Reviewer’s Name:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Jennifer Lehner</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Author:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Olive Ann Burns<b></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Publication Date:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> 1984 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Number of Pages: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">391</span><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Part of a Series:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Yes, Cold Sassy series, 1 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Subject Heading(s):</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Coming of age story </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Country life</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Family </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Georgia </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Historical Fiction </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">May-December romance </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Small town life </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Southern Fiction </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Teenage boy </span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Geographical Setting/Time Period:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Georgia, 1906. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Main Character(s):</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Will Tweedy – fourteen-year-old free spirit who likes to break the rules. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">E. Rucker Blakeslee – Will’s brash and domineering grandfather who likes to live by his own rules. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Mattie Lou Blakeslee – Will’s deceased grandmother who was an amazing gardener and caretaker of the sick.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Miss Love Simpson – the pretty strong-willed woman who becomes Rucker Blakeslee’s second wife.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Mary Willis Tweedy – Will’s nervous mother who is still mourning her mother’s death.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Hoyt Tweedy – Will’s stern but loving father who accepts and embraces change. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Plot Summary:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Coming of age story of a young man set within a conservative southern town in the early 1900’s. This young man and his family deal with the death of the family matriarch as well as the scandalous elopement of their father/grandfather with a young Yankee woman half his age. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Appeal:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Detailed and descriptive story of the life and times of a fictional Southern family set in the early 1900’s. Authentic dialects are used to give specific details to the lives and actions of the family as they adapt to the societal and technological changes within their family and town. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Brief quote: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I went up to her house a week after her passing. I guess I hoped she would seem less dead there. (pg 54)</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Prizes or Awards:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> ALA Best Books for Young Adults 1985</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Similar Works:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Leaving Cold Sassy: the unfinished sequel to Cold Sassy Tree</i> by Olive Ann Burns (story picks up in Will Tweedy’s 25<sup>th</sup> year in Cold Sassy, GA); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Empire Falls</i> by Richard Russo (small town fiction with detailed settings and quirky characters); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Bastard Out of Carolina</i> by Dorothy Allison (coming of age story set in the south, family centered story, female author) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Reviewer's Name:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Patricia Lowrey</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Sassy-Tree-ebook/dp/B0026IANSI?ie=UTF8&tag=teeny08-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Cold Sassy Tree" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B0026IANSI&tag=teeny08-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=teeny08-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0026IANSI" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. <i>Readers= Advisory Service in the Public Library</i> <i>2<sup>nd</sup></i>. Chicago: ALA, 1997.</span></div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-22623498804032726262011-05-21T21:20:00.000-07:002011-05-21T21:22:20.502-07:00Omnitopia Dawn -Speculative fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Author</b>: Diane Duane </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Publication Date</b>: 2010</span><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Number of Pages</b>: 360</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Part of a Series</b>: First in series, second book projected publication August 2011</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Subject Heading(s)</b>:</span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Computer games - fiction</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Computer programmers - fiction</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Science fiction </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Artificial intelligence </span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Geographical Setting/Time Period</b>: Near future United States</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Main Characters:</span></b></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Dev Logan - world's seventh or eighth richest man and genius programmer. He is the creator of Omnitopia, a Massive Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game which has become an obsession for millions of people around the word.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Rik Maliani - a player and a good guy, recently knighted in the game universe and given the tools to create his own world withing the game universe of Omnitopia.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Phill Sorenson - partner in the early days of building Omnitopia, and filled with a revengeful outlook on life. He is determined to take Dev down.</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Plot Summary</b>:</span><i><u><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></u></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">On the eve of an exciting new game functionality roll-out, while the software is at its most vulnerable, the system is attacked. Dev and his loyal employees in the guise of their virtual personae battle to save the game manager from extinction and the players universe from crashing. Some players are logged in with special total immersion equipment; no one knows what will happen to those Beta testers if they are logged in when the game goes down. Millions of dollars are at stake as well; that loss could mean the end of the game.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Appeal</b>:</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Near prescient, the book will appeal to MMPORPG gamers who will fantasize about being involved. The story is intricately plotted and character driven. It has a fairly-relaxed pace given the sense of urgency that the author is trying to create. The tone of the book is suspenseful and the writing style is descriptive but not overly so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Brief quote:</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">"Dev's fury at those who wanted to destory this game that he had created and watched grow </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">and who wanted to destroy it just make money and hurt him was growing by the moment. Distantly in the background he was now starting to hear the shouted communications of the system security teams and their allies in the Palace of the Princes of Hell as they fought to keep the attackers out of the core, away from the main logic bundles, the great stacks of ARGOT modules that made the game run. They were losing." (p. 319)</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><i> </i></span></div></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Prizes or Awards:</b> Publishers' Weekly makes it a starred review in September 2010</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Similar Works:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The Flood by William C. Dietz is the offical novel of the Xbox game</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The Fall of Reach by Eric S. Nylund </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Reviewer’s Name:</b> Nancy Rimassa</span><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Omnitopia-Dawn-1-Diane-Duane/dp/B004J8HY4Y?ie=UTF8&tag=teeny08-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Omnitopia Dawn: Omnitopia #1" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B004J8HY4Y&tag=teeny08-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=teeny08-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B004J8HY4Y" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. <i>Reader’ Advisory Service in the Public Library</i> <i>2<sup>nd</sup></i>. Chicago: ALA, 1997.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-85802741952023983272011-05-18T21:57:00.000-07:002011-05-18T21:57:25.354-07:00Shanghai Girls: a Novel - Historical fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Author: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Lisa See</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Publication Date:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> 2009 </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Number of pages: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">314 (hdbk.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Part of a Series: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">No series</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Subject Heading(s):</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Arranged marriage </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">China </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Chinese-American women </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Domestic fiction </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Family secrets </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Historical fiction </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Illegal immigrants </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Immigrants – United States </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Los Angeles </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Loyalty </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Poverty </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Prejudice </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Race relations </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Shanghai </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sisters </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Women’s lives and relationships</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">World War II </span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Geographical Setting / Time period:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Shanghai, China and Los Angeles, CA / 1937-1957</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Main Character(s):</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Pearl Chin – the older Chin daughter, bookish, tall, and stubbornly modern, but bound to her sister by a sense of duty</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">May Chin – the younger Chin daughter, May is beautiful, charming and spoiled as well as modern</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sam Louie – Pearl’s husband by arranged marriage, Sam is resilient, strong, and usually silent</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Joy Louie – born in America to May but raised by Pearl and Sam, Joy is an optimistic, idealistic go-getter who seeks the truth</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Plot Summary:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Peal and May Chin are two young adult sisters living the life of the privileged in Shanghai at the start of the novel. However, that life soon comes to a crashing halt when they discover their family is destitute and that they have been sold into arranged marriages to men in California to help pay off their father’s gambling debts. The novel covers the next twenty years of their lives as they survive invasion, warfare, immigration, and prejudice through their unique bond as sisters. </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Appeal:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> This measured novel focused on well-developed, introspective characterization and detailed descriptions of historical events in China and Los Angeles. The storyline is character-driven, domestic, and totally open-ended. The novel features accurate and authentic details of the Battle of Shanghai (1937), the bombing of Pearl Harbor (1941), the development of Chinatown in Los Angeles, the Communist takeover of Shanghai (1949), and the Confession Program in the US. There are also many details about traditional Chinese culture and life as an immigrant in America. The style of the novel is very candid and personal as it is in first-person point of view. </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Brief quote:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> “I thought I was modern. I thought I had choice. I thought I was nothing like my mother. But my father’s gambling has swept all that away. I’m to be sold – traded like so many other girls before me – to help my family. I feel so trapped and so helpless that I can hardly breathe.” (p.25-26 : spoken by Pearl)</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Awards:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Honorable mention from the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 319.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Notes:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Interesting FAQ page about the book on author’s website: <a href="http://www.lisasee.com/shanghaigirls/shanghaiquestions.php">http://www.lisasee.com/shanghaigirls/shanghaiquestions.php</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 319.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Reviewer’s Name:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Jennifer Lehner</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-Girls-Novel-Lisa-See/dp/0812980530?ie=UTF8&tag=teeny08-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Shanghai Girls: A Novel" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0812980530&tag=teeny08-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=teeny08-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0812980530" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> </span></div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-46216403575044017242011-05-18T05:59:00.000-07:002011-05-18T05:59:36.540-07:00Love and other drugs - Alternative Format<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Director: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Edward Zwick</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Release Date:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> November 2010 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Part of a Series:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> No. Based on the non-fiction book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman</i> by Jamie Reidy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Subject Heading(s):</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Beautiful Women </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Prescription Drug Abuse </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Comedy </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Pharmaceutical Sales </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Selflessness </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Family Relationships </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Unconditional Love </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Parkinson’s Disease </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Viagra </span></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Main Character(s):</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jamie Randall: played by Jake Gyllenhall is a charming womanizer with a soft side. </span></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Prizes or Awards:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Nominated for the Satellite Award given by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">International Press Academy</i>. -IMDB</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Similar Works:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><i>Sweet November</i> (Similar themes of love and sickness) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><i>A lot like love </i>(similar themes of true love starting off with a one night stand) </span></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Reviewer’s Name:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Lenore St. John </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Other-Drugs-Jake-Gyllenhaal/dp/B004L3AR0K?ie=UTF8&tag=teeny08-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Love & Other Drugs" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B004L3AR0K&tag=teeny08-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=teeny08-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B004L3AR0K" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Form adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. <i>Readers= Advisory Service in the Public Library</i> <i>2<sup>nd</sup></i>. Chicago: ALA, 1997.</span></div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-76508254960002455142011-05-15T08:49:00.000-07:002011-05-15T08:49:44.835-07:00The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise: A Novel - Literary fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Author:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Julia Stuart<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Publication Date:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">2010 </span><b> </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Number of Pages: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">304 (hardcover)</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b> </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Part of a Series:</b> No</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Subject Heading(s):</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Bereavement in families<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">British humor<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Child’s death<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Conflict in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Marriage<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Literary Fiction<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Loss<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Zoo <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Keepers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
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<div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Geographical Setting:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>London, England<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b> </b></span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Time Period:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> present day</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Main Character(s):</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Balthazar Jones- a history buff who enjoys giving tours as Beefeater of the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>London Tower, a grieving father, and a husband who tends to hold his emotions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>inside rather than share them with his wife</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Hebe Jones- an independent, hard working, grieving woman who is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the wife of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Bathalzar Jones and works at the London Underground’s Lost Property Office</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Milo- the Jones’ son who passes away at the age of 11, but plays a big part <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>in the novel through flashbacks and references to his life</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Mrs. Cook- the oldest tortoise in existence, family pet of the Jones’</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Plot Summary:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Balthazar Jones and his wife Hebe live in the Tower of London. Balthazar <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>is a Beefeater who provides tours of the historical tower. When the Queen decides to reintroduce the zoo on the Tower grounds, Balthazar is asked to become the zoo keeper. At first he is hesitant but soon he falls in love with the animals and the zoo becomes a hit among the tourists and the other residents of the Tower. However, not <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all is perfect in Balthazar’s life as the grief from his young <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>son’s death has slowly torn apart his marriage. In order to restore their relationship the Jones’ must work through their grief by learning to communicate more <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>effectively and move on. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><b>Appeal:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Tone:</b> humorous but mixed with hints of seriousness in its themes</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></li>
<li><b>Characterization: </b>told in 3<sup>rd</sup> person but readers come to understand and get <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>to know the original cast of characters through their thoughts and actions, secondary <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>characters are important to the plot; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></li>
<li><b>Story line:</b> unique story plot but filled with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>themes of loss, love, and healing to which all readers will relate; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></li>
<li><b>Style/Language:</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>charming; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></li>
<li><b>Frame/Setting:</b> The Tower of London and the history surrounding this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>historical site is an important part of this novel and is weaved in throughout, history <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>buffs will enjoy this aspect </li>
</ul><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Brief quote:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Balthazar Jones had been collecting rain for almost three years, a compulsion that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>had started shortly after the death of his only child. At first he thought that rain was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>simply an infuriating part of the job, which, along with the damp from their <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>abominable lodgings, produced in all the Beefeaters a ruthless specimen of fungus <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>that flourished on the backs of their knees.” (7)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="paragraphstyle2"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Prizes or Awards:</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="paragraphstyle2"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">NY Times Bestseller (August 2010), </span></div><div class="paragraphstyle2"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">highly recommended in Library Journal <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>and Publisher’s Weekly, </span></div><div class="paragraphstyle2"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Entertainment Weekly grade A review, </span></div><div class="paragraphstyle2"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">People<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magazine 4 out of 4 stars review</span></div><div class="paragraphstyle2"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Similar Works:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><i>The Hound in the Left-Hand Corner</i> by Giles Waterfield – humorous stories, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>takes place in London in a historical museum which is similar to the historical <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>London Tower</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">by Mary Ann Shaffer- takes <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>place in England, original story plot, unique characters, charming style and language <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>(LibraryThing)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Reviewer’s Name:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Taryn Kingery</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tower-Zoo-Tortoise-Novel/dp/0385533284?ie=UTF8&tag=teeny08-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise: A Novel" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0385533284&tag=teeny08-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=teeny08-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0385533284" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. <i>Readers= Advisory Service in the Public Library</i> <i>2<sup>nd</sup></i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chicago: ALA, 1997.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-75797010568608021652011-05-15T08:33:00.000-07:002011-05-15T08:33:52.150-07:00After Dark (Afutadaku) - Literary fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Author:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Haruki Murakami (trans. Jay Rubin)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Publication Date:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2007 (original publication 2004)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Number of Pages: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">191 <b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Part of a Series:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> No. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Subject Heading(s):</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Alienation (Social Psychology) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br />
</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Interpersonal Relations <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Japanese Fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Jazz <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Literary Fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Magical Realism <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Psychological Fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Sex Workers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Geographical Setting/ Time Period:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A city in modern-day Japan</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Main Character(s):</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <b> </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Us</b>: Quiet, transparent, and intuitive, we the readers and the author narrate the story in our observance of it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mari Asai:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> A bookish, unambitious student of Chinese at the University of Foreign studies, who feels she has nothing to show for her individualism.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Eri Asai:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> A beautiful, shallow model who is in a deep sleep, and wakes up to her existential angst.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kaoru: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">An ex-female-wrestler and current love hotel manager, who is not afraid of gangsters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Takahashi:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> A talented, but not brilliant, trombonist and law student who does everything very slowly and is full of long stories.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Plot Summary:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Over the course of a night, Mari Asai meets Takahashi, a boy she knew once in high school, and Kaoru, whom she assists in helping a Chinese prostitute, who’s been beaten and robbed in Kaoru’s love hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through their conversations, the reader comes to understand their inner lives and uncertainties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While this is occurring Eri Asai, who has been in a deep sleep, wakes up to the horror that is her identity and existence, and the salaryman who attacked the prostitute finishes a hard night’s work.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Appeal:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Written in a stream-of-consciousness style that plays off of the jazz riffs in Takashi’s beloved “Five Spot After Dark,” Murakami blends straightforward sentences with lyrical prose with scripted comedy routines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The characters are flawed with deep lives of their own, into which the reader is given glimpses as they react to the plot at their own, steady pace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tone of the novel is gray and depersonalized, set a few paces back from the action, with bursts of humor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This helps to set up the reader for some disconcerting elements, which feel horrifying in comparison to the dreamy undertone of the rest of the novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The familiar and solid setting of a Denny’s serves to emphasize the surreal nature of the inner lives of the characters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Brief quote: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">pg. 3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In our broad sweep, the city looks like a single gigantic creature—or more like a single collective entity created by many intertwining organisms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Countless arteries stretch to the ends of its elusive body, circulating a continuous supply of fresh blood cells, sending out new data and collecting the old, sending out new consumables and collecting the old, sending out new contradictions and collecting the old.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Prizes or Awards:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Nominee for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2008, which is sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and <i>World Literature Today</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haruki Murakami has received the Franz Kafka Prize from the Czech Republic in 2006 and the Jerusalem Prize in 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2007 and 2008 he received honorary doctorates from the University of Liege and Princeton University, respectively.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Similar Works: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">From NoveList’s Author Read-Alikes</span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kobo Abe</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">, <i>The Woman in the Dunes</i>, surrealist Japanese novel that explores themes of alienation and diverges sharply from traditional Japanese literature.</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">David Mitchell</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">, <i>Ghostwritten: A Novel in Nine Parts</i>, interweaves the stories of nine characters throughout the world and portrays the alienation and loneliness in modern life. </span></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Reviewer’s Name:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Natalie Garner </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/After-Vintage-International-Haruki-Murakami/dp/0307278735?ie=UTF8&tag=teeny08-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="After Dark (Vintage International)" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0307278735&tag=teeny08-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=teeny08-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0307278735" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. <i>Readers= Advisory Service in the Public Library</i> <i>2<sup>nd</sup></i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chicago: ALA, 1997.</span></div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-54673118082129459922011-05-15T08:25:00.000-07:002011-05-15T08:25:05.082-07:00Everything is illuminated - Literary Fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bildungsromane <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Grandfather and child <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Grandfathers -- Fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Guilt in men <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Holocaust, Jewish (1933-1945) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Holocaust survivors <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Humorous fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jewish-Americans in Ukraine <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Novelists -- Fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Novels within novels <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Translators <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">World War II <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">World War, 1939-1945 -- Ukraine – Fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Young men -- Fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Note: Bildungsromane:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> A novel mainly about the moral, psychological, and/or intellectual development of a protagonist, typically a young adult (see wiktionary.org)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Geographical Setting/ Time Period:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> United States and Ukraine; 1997</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Main Character(s): </span></b></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jonathan Safran Foer- </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a young, Jewish-American college student who has a penchant for collecting strange items</span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Alex Perchov- </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a young Ukrainian translator, his knowledge of American culture is at least a decade out of date</span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Grandfather- </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Alex’s disgruntled grandfather, a taxi driver who claims to be blind and insists his “deranged seeing-eye bitch,” Sammie Davis Jr., Jr., go everywhere with him.</span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Plot Summary: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jonathan, a fictitious writer who happens to share the author’s name, goes to the Ukraine armed only with a photograph and a story in search of Augustine, the woman who saved Jonathan’s grandfather during the Nazi invasion of Ukraine. Jonathan’s translator, Alex, along with Alex’s grandfather guide Jonathan across the Ukrainian countryside in search of the lost story of his grandfather’s youth. </span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Appeal: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The language style is unique. The story is told through both Jonathan and Alex, a young Ukrainian man who speaks in a combination of Ukrainian-taught broken English heavily influenced by American pop culture. The story unfolds slowly, interspersed with comedic moments that result from Alex’s use of English and the interactions between the three main characters. The characters themselves, even minor ones, are interesting, richly developed, and unique. While not suspenseful, the story Foer travels across the world to uncover is engaging. The frame, Ukraine from the 1700s to the present, and the details of Jewish life are essential to the story development. The emotions and experiences of the main characters will resonate with readers as they experience the truth unfold through Alex’s words and Jonathan’s retelling of his family history. The telling is very straightforward, so there are some references to sex and explicit descriptions of the human body. It is important to note that the ending is somewhat open and the narrative ends abruptly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Brief quote: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“But first I am burdened to recite my good appearance. I am unequivocally tall. I do not know any women who are taller than me. The women I know who are taller than me are lesbians, for whom 1969 was a very momentous year. I have handsome hairs, which are split in the middle. This is because Mother used to split them on the side when I was a boy, and to spleen her I split them in the middle.” (page 3-4)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Prizes or Awards:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">2002 National Jewish Book Award, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">2003 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The 2002 Guardian First Book Award. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Kirkus & Publishers Weekly starred reviews. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Movie adaptation released in 2005, starring Elijah Wood. </span></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Similar Works: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The History of Love</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> by Nicole Krauss (Novels within novels; translators; Holocaust survivors) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Reviewer’s Name:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Lori Chatman</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Illuminated-Jonathan-Safran-Foer/dp/0060529709?ie=UTF8&tag=teeny08-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0060529709&tag=teeny08-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=teeny08-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0060529709" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. <i>Readers= Advisory Service in the Public Library</i> <i>2<sup>nd</sup></i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chicago: ALA, 1997.</span></div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80609440984530592.post-68512001851066482172011-05-14T17:13:00.000-07:002011-05-14T17:13:48.767-07:00People of the Book - Literary fiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Author: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Geraldine Brooks</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Publication Date: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2008</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Number of Pages: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">372</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Part of a Series:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> no </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -1.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Subject Heading(s):</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Books-conservation and restoration-fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Judaism-prayers and devotions-fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Rare books- fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Religious persecution <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Toleration <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Greed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Manuscripts <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Religious liberty <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sacred books <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Voyages and travel <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Geographical Setting/ Time Period: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">modern day- Bosnia, Australia, U.S., Israel and the past Spain, Italy, Austria, Bosnia</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Main Character(s): </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Hanna Heath-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> the Australian rare book conservator who tries to find the story behind the books she works on; <b> </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Ozren Karaman-</b> the brave librarian who saved the Haggadah during the bombing in Sarajevo </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Plot Summary: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Sarajevo Haggadah, an ancient illustrated Hebrew manuscript, has reappeared after the cease fire in Sarajevo. Hanna has been approved by the UN and the Bosnians to inspect the manuscript and restore it so it can be placed on display with other religious items that will showcase that various cultures and religions enrich each other. Thus begins a journey which takes the reader back to specific times in the manuscript’s history based on small items found during the restoration.</span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Appeal: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This book has many stories within the main story. It delves into many issues concerning religion and some politics. It progresses at a fairly leisurely pace. This would appeal to many historical fiction readers as it is detailed and visits various places at different times in history. The characters are well written and strong.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Note: This book has a map on the inside cover of the trip that the manuscript has taken.</span></div><div class="Quick1" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Brief quote: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Here in this museum in 1894, M. Martell had worked his soft cloth and his small brushes over the old and blackened pieces of metal until the silver once again gleamed in the light. For just a moment, the very dispassionate M. Martell had lost his head. ‘The clasps,’ he had written, ‘are extraordinarily beautiful.’” (page 104)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Prizes or Awards:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year and Literary Fiction Book of the Year, Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Award and School Library Journal’s Adult Books for High School Students 2008</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Similar Works: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sarah’s Key</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> by, Tatiana de Rosnay (NoveList- Jewish history, WWII) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kepler</i> by John Banville (NoveList- intricate plot historical fiction, religious persecution)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: -1.0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Reviewer’s Name: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Erin Bedford</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/People-Book-Novel-Geraldine-Brooks/dp/0143115006?ie=UTF8&tag=teeny08-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="People of the Book: A Novel" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0143115006&tag=teeny08-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=teeny08-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0143115006" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt;">Adapted from Saricks, Joyce G. and Nancy Brown. <i>Readers= Advisory Service in the Public Library</i> <i>2<sup>nd</sup></i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chicago: ALA, 1997.</span></div></div>NJRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437561506035231233noreply@blogger.com1