The Lessons of Books: A Review Blog

"I feel infinite" ✰✰✰✰✰ Blurb taken from here : Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Also a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson,  The Perks of Being a Wallflower  is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic. The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky,  Perks  follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and  The Rocky Horror Picture Show . Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up. A #1  New York Times  best seller for more than a year, an American Library Association Best Book...

"All the best things in my life have started with a Dolly Parton song." ✰✰✰✰ Blurb pulled from here : With starry Texas nights, red candy suckers, Dolly Parton songs, and a wildly unforgettable heroine—Dumplin’ is guaranteed to steal your heart. Dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom, Willowdean has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American-beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked . . .  until Will takes a job at Harpy’s, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn’t surprised to find herself attracted to Bo. But she is surprised when he seems to like her back.   Instead of finding new heights of self-assurance in her relationship with Bo, Will starts to doubt herself. So she sets out to take back her confidence by doing the most horrifying thing she can im...

And that isn't important? ✰✰✰✰ 4 Stars Blurb pulled from here The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery is the Most Beautiful Book In The World! In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless classic was embraced by critics and readers across the country for its purity and beauty of expression. And Saint-Exupéry's beloved artwork was restored and remastered to present his work in its original and vibrant colors. Now Harcourt is issuing uniform full-color foreign language editions. The restored artwork glows like never before. These affordable and beautiful editions are sure to delight an entire new generation of readers, students, children, and adults for whom Saint-Exupéry's story will open the door to a new understanding of life. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, the "Winged Poet," was born in ...

Listen to your elders... ✰✰⭐ 2.5 Stars Blurb from Amazon: Be inspired by the book behind the graduation speech by Dr. Rick Rigsby’s– now with 100+ million views on Facebook and YouTube. After his wife died, Rick Rigsby was ready to give up. The bare minimum was good enough. Rigsby was content to go through the motions, living out his life as a shell of himself. But then he remembered the lessons his father taught him years before - something insanely simple, yet incredibly profound. These lessons weren’t in advanced mathematics or the secrets of the stock market. They were quite straightforward, in fact, for Rigsby’s father never made it through third grade. But if this uneducated man’s instructions were powerful enough to produce a Ph.D. and a judge – imagine what they can do for you. Join Rigsby as he dusts off time-tested beliefs and finds brilliantly simple answers to modern society’s questions. In a magnificent testament to the “Greatest Generation” whi...

It was a camp for teenagers in a heightened mental and emotional state... ✰✰✰✰⭐ 4.5 Stars Blurb pulled from here: According to sixteen-year-old Zander Osborne,  nowhere  is an actual place—and she’s just fine there. But her parents insist that she get out of her head—and her home state—and attend Camp Padua, a summer camp for at-risk teens. Zander does not fit in—or so she thinks. She has only one word for her fellow campers:  crazy.  In fact, the whole camp population exists somewhere between disaster and diagnosis. There’s her cabinmate Cassie, a self-described manic-depressive-bipolar-anorexic. Grover Cleveland (yes, like the president), a cute but confrontational boy who expects to be schizophrenic someday, odds being what they are. And Bek, a charmingly confounding pathological liar. But amid group “share-apy” sessions and forbidden late-night outings, unlikely friendships form, and as the Michigan summer heats up, the four teens begin to reveal t...

Goes To... If you're reading this you should know first and foremost that this blog is meant for me. It's a way for me to look back and remember the books I've read and how they've made me feel. It's a reminder that even when things look terrible, there is always a lesson. Questions can be found in the most horrific grammar, the dullest characters and the loosest plots around. This is also a map of the road I've taken this year to reach 96 books. My plan is to read four non-fiction & four fiction books a month (and four magazines of my choosing as well, although I doubt I will be reviewing those). Sure, this blog will make recommendations. It was use a starring system, 1-5 with 1 being the worst and 5 the best, so that I can know whether or not a book is worth coming back to. Mostly, this will be a reflection of feelings and thoughts and questions.