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Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe - a book review by Cassie
September 13, 2011

Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2003. Print. This book contains over 20 short stories composed by Edgar Allan Poe during his lifetime. Some of his most famous works like “The Tell-Tale Heart” and

Bolts of Melody by Emily Dickinson - a book review by Alex
September 12, 2011

Dickinson, Emily. Bolts of Melody. New York: Harper 8 Row Publishers, 1945 I read Bolts of Melody by Emily Dickinson. This book contained a wide variety of poems, both short and long. Her poems are some of the deepest poems that i have had the pleasure

Nine Horses by Billy Collins - a book review by Jessica
September 09, 2011

Collins, Billy. Nine Horses. New York: Random House, 2002. Print. Summary: Nine Horses is written by poet Billy Collins. His poems are inspired by his own personal experiences, which turn ordinary events into enjoyable poems. Collins has the ability to

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris - a book review by Tosh
September 07, 2011

Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day. Boston: Little, Brown 8 Co., 2000. Print. I had a lot of fun reading and analyzing the works in this book. These short stories written by David Sedaris are all very humorous anecdotes about his past. Some of the

The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll & John Sir Tennial - a book review by Chandler
September 06, 2011

Carroll, Lewis, and John Sir Tennial. The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll. New York: Modern Library, 1936. The book that I chose was an extremely antiquated version of The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll. Although this book had everything from his short

Mother Love by Rita Dove - a book review by Kendra
September 01, 2011

Dove, Rita. Mother Love: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995. Print. The book Mother Love by Rita Dove, consisted of poems with several different topics. The poems I appreciated the most were Heroes, Mother Love, and Missing. These poems kept me interest

Battle Heroes by Allan Zullo - a book review by Will S
August 31, 2011

“In a remote Afghan village, Marine Lieutenant Stephen Boada picks up a chilling Taliban message on his radio scanner” ‘The Americans won’t make it out alive.’  This book is awesome for people who are into reading about war and weapon related s

Impact: 50 Short Short Stories by Fannie Staufer - a book review by Ryan
August 30, 2011

The book Impact is a big book packed full of quick, short stories including my favorite, "The Path Through The Cemetery" by Leonard Q. Ross. This story’s setting is in January of 1986. The theme is stupidity. This story is about a young man named Ivan,

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers - Danny
August 29, 2011

Fallen Angels takes place in Vietnam and the soldiers don’t really get a lot of war action in the beginning. The genre is fiction. The main character is Perry. Perry joined the military to stay out of trouble at home. The only thing that Perry and his w

Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario - a book review by Eddie
August 25, 2011

This is about a young boy that his mother left him when he was five years old, and all the problems he went though to see his mother across the border. He is beaten and hurt just to get across to be with his family. People that like to read about how Mexi