by Chris Spellman | Oct 27, 2022 | Book Reviews, Family
After that he began to dream of the long yellow beach and he saw the first of the lions … and he waited to see if there would be more lions and he was happy. What do lions have to do with a book about fishing off the coast of Cuba? According to Ernest Hemingway’s The...
by Cassandra Spellman | Jun 6, 2022 | Book Reviews
In White as Silence, Red as Song by Alessandro D’Avenia, Leo sees his world in color. Every emotion is a color in the mind of this sixteen year old boy. Red is passion and life. Red is the color of Beatrice’s hair, the girl in his grade with whom he’s desperately in...
by Cassandra Spellman | Apr 14, 2022 | Book Reviews
You are instruments to do your duty. There are necessary orders that are no fault of yours and there is a bridge and that bridge can be the point on which the future of the human race can turn. If you only had three days to live, how would you live them? For any...
by Cassandra Spellman | Sep 18, 2021 | Book Reviews, Dystopian
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind. Who knows what might be the target of the well-read man? Guy Montag, protagonist of Fahrenheit 451, is a fireman, though his purpose...
by Cassandra Spellman | Jul 13, 2021 | Book Reviews, Dystopian, Fiction
If people talk about how the United States is politically divisive today, we have something we can learn from Spain in the early 1930s. Jose Maria Gironella’s The Cypresses Believe in God is the Spanish version of the Russian novel: a myriad of characters,...
