Alayna Coates

Remember Hurricane Katrina with Dave Eggers' book Zeitoun

Today marks the 5 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastating landfall on New Orleans. Remember this event by reading Dave Eggers' book Zeitoun. Zeitoun is the story of a family's struggle to survive Hurricane Katrina...

Lit to Film: Eat Pray Love

Three weeks ago the hype began over Julia Robert's new movie Eat Pray Love, based on the book of the same title by Elizabeth Gilbert. Eat Pray Love and Julia Roberts fans will be able to fulfill their...

From blog to book an up and coming trend

Have you noticed the trend over the past few years of blogs becoming books? Or blog author's getting book deals to replicate their writing on paper? The first name that comes to mind is Jenn Lancaster'...

Book club discussion questions: The Help

Haven't heard of The Help? Read my recent review of the book. The Help Discussion Questions How do you think the novel would have been different if it was told by a third person omniscient narrator? Which...

The Help: Is it the next To Kill a Mockingbird?

The Help by Kathryn Stockett has been on the New York Times Best Seller List for the past 44 weeks. Considering that the book was only released one year ago today, the book has spent all but 8 weeks, or...

Walter Dean Myers releases his newest book today

Walter Dean Myers, the author of books such as Monster and Fallen Angels, is set to release his newest book, Lockdown, today. The book follows one of Myers' most common themes, teenage life. Lockdown shows fourteen year old Reese...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

"When I chose this book, I was thinking of The Catcher in the Rye. Because every time I teach Catcher to the eighth grade, I feel like I'm witnessing the most astonishing thing. It's...

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.: A highlight on literature that follows his dream of civil rights

The Help- an amazing new book by Kathryn Stockett that follows three women, during 1962, in a project that brings light to the unfair treatment of African Americans. This book is this week's number one seller on the...

Lit to film preview: The Lovely Bones

Mark Walberg, Boston's sexiest native, will be starring in the movie version of Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones, which is being widely released this weekend after a limited release at the beginning...

Miep Gies died yesterday at 100 years of age

It is a sad day. Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank and her family for just over two years during WWII, died, according to the Anne Frank Museum, after she sustained a neck injury last month...

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