Book cover I usually don't do the comparative thing, but this one stuck me pretty directly. Imagine the movie Crazy Rich Asians, but teenagers at a boarding school in the mountains outside of Aspen, with a broadly international cast. Main point: pretty much everybody is insanely rich. The main character, Jaya Rao, is a princess from an old kingdom of India who is literally there to break someone's heart....
Title Illustration I read somewhere that the story of Disney's Frozen was based on this book, so I decided to read and review it for this blog. I want to be clear that there is almost nothing that the story of Frozen has left in common with this original fairytale, except for a talking reindeer. This is a short read, and I've linked to the full text via Project Gutenberg in the book information block below....
Book cover The Graveyard Book isn't a horror novel, but it is absolutely goth and macabre. The story follows a boy from 18 months old when his whole family is murdered and he wanders off into the night through his childhood as he is raised in a graveyard by two ghosts and a vampire as guardian (who supplies physical things, like food and clothes). At one point, we meet a werewolf and ghouls as well....
Book Cover Elizabeth Warren is running for president, and pretty much every candidate writes a book prior to running. It's a good way to let folks know where they are coming from, and do so in a long format, unfiltered by the journalist's desire to pare things down into sound-bites. This book is subtitled: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class. This is a book about politics, personal history of the author and the economic history of the country along with ample explanation of why the past matters today....