The Host By Ashley Stern Stephenie Meyer, best known for writing The Twilight Saga, is also the author of The Host. The Host is a more mature novel meant for older audiences. not to say that it is tasteless, however. Twilight is much more a young adult or teen novel. In The Host, Meyer uses style and tone similar [...]
The Book of General Ignorance By Ashley Stern The Book of General Ignorance is a wonderfully entertaining book of factoids about the things that everyone thinks they know, but are in fact wrong. John Loyd and John Mithchinson have collaborated to create this one of a kind book of information on everything from science, to [...]
The Art of Racing in the Rain By Ashley Stern The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein is a novel of canine proportions. The Art of Racing in the Rain is told in the first person, by an unexpected source. It is narrated by the lovable and charismatic dog named Enzo. Enzo is [...]
Dead Until Dark By Ashley Stern Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris is the first of nine books in the Sookie Stackhouse series. This series is also the inspiration and basis for HBO’s True Blood, and for the most part, the plot of the book and television series are the same. Although HBO has added [...]
The Last Lecture By Ashley Stern Typically a “last lecture” is a lecture given by a professor as if it was his or her last chance to say anything they needed to say; a lecture written as if the person is dying. In Randy Pausch’s case, he was. Pausch had terminal pancreatic cancer. Pausch was [...]
Eragon By Ashley Stern At the age of 15 Christopher Paolini graduated high school; by 19 he was the #1 bestselling author of Eragon. Eragon is Paolini’s debut novel as well as the first book in the Inheritance trilogy, which also includes Eldest and Brisingr. Eragon was a New york Times #1 Bestseller and has been adapted to film. [...]
Dear John By Ashley Stern Nicholas Sparks has written yet another novel of unexpected love found than tragically lost. The best part of Dear John, is the first hundred pages or so. After the initial charm of the book , the plot becomes exceedingly monotonous. Characters are extremely one dimensional and changes shown in them are [...]
Gathering Blue By Ashley Stern Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry is a companion to both The Giver, a Newbury Award Winner, as well as Messenger. Gathering Blue is a richly woven novel that takes place in it’s own dystopic society. This world is intolerant of any person that is in any way different from the [...]
Disappointing at Best By Ashley Stern Laurie Viera Rigler, the author of Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, has produced a wholly unoriginal and frustrating novel. Rigler creates a prodigious amount of story-lines that she rarely concludes. The reader is left hanging and wondering why these superfluous vignettes were included in the overall novel. Rigler also [...]
Words to Live By By Ashley Stern Mike Krezyzewski, Duke University head basketball coach, and New York Times Best-Selling author, Jamie Spatola, have collaborated to put together, Beyond Basketball: Coach K’s Keywords for Success. Coach Krezyzewski has won the 2001 NCAA Men’s National Championship.This book is a collection of personal anecdotes concerning key attributes of [...]
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