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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Grand Central Publishing, 1988
Everyone's Favorite . . .
I honestly have no idea how many times I have read this book. I read it first as an assignment in the eighth grade; most recently, at the age of 41, I read it aloud to three of my children. As with the more recent readings that I recall, I choked up a bit at the end ...
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Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
Touchstone, 2003
This book will last for many generations to come
I won this great book when I was 18 years old. Until today, after almost two decades, I can still remember the story very well. Every page in this book is so alive with senses! I could really see the transitional period from one generation to the next; from the ...
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Certain Girls: A Novel
Jennifer Weiner
Atria, 2008
Sequel well-worth the wait
This long-awaited and much anticipated sequel to Good In Bed is everything I could have hoped for. Picking up thirteen years later, Cannie Schapiro is just as funny and crazy - but she's also more mature, more settled, and mother to a teenage girl. Certain Girls is a ...
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The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2004
"Come, kiss the book!"
As Shakespeare's final play, The Tempest is appropriately a culmination of his motifs and themes amassed beforehand in previous work. You have the jester, the underhanded political aspirants, the outcast, the young naive fools hopelessly in lust, and the omniscient ...
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Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons
Tim Russert
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
Ode to fathers, and Tim
This was another wonderful, tearful book from Tim Russert. How much we will miss him... I just wish he had written a book about his mother.
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Absolutely loved this book!
Well I'm shocked at how many have rated this book poorly and goes to show everyone has different likes in what they read. I have not been so interested in a book in so long. I could not put this down and became incredibly enthralled with each of the characters ... ...
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Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
Meg Md Meeker
Ballantine Books, 2007
Wonderful and Informative Guide for Fathers. Buy it!
It This is an excellent book that really challenges fathers to be the best dad they can be. The book stresses over and over again how important a father is (opposite of the message that pop culture tells us) and that a father is the main person in a daughter's life ...
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Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))
Mo Willems
Hyperion Book CH, 2004
Sweet
We received this book as a gift and my 2 year old daughter LOVES it. She does her own "knuffling" around the house, she's totally enjoying the story.
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Fractured
Karin Slaughter
Delacorte Press, 2008
Fractured
This book was a great read, and a much needed change in characters. Although her other books started out interesting the storyline had become too depressing to enjoy. I really enjoyed this book and the writing style. I was entertained to the point I couldn't put it ...
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The Daring Book for Girls
Andrea J. Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz
Collins, 2007
Great book
Would recommend this book to anyone that wants to give a gift to a girl.
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Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
Charlotte Brontė
Dover Publications, 2003
Wonderful!
Jane Eyre is never a disappointment. Bronte really can touch your heart with the struggles of the main character. A woman in the post-modern era could have easily been in the same situation. Bronte put forth a completely time-less quality in this book. If you have the ...
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The Paper Bag Princess (Classic Munsch)
Robert N. Munsch
Annick Press, 1992
Smart and brave trumps cuteness
Although this fairy tale is a nearly thirty-year-old classic, it is still timely for girls. The book was a birthday present for a great granddaughter named Elizabeth, who loved reading a story about a heroine who shares her name. But the book pleased her even more ...
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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics, 2003
Rewarding
Some honest disclosures. My strongest academic credentials relevant to literary criticism are that I minored in English. I have never been a "student" of Dickens. I enjoy Shakespeare plays in the same manner that I enjoy analyzing baseball games: I always get the ...
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Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of ...
Rosalind Wiseman
Three Rivers Press, 2002
Enlightening for Dad
Simply put, I found the book to far exceed my expectations for it. As a male, the author's insights into girls' social roles and interactions were a huge eye-opener. And as the father of three girls, I appreciate all the examples of specific situations girls may find ...
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The Garden of Last Days: A Novel
Andre Dubus III
W. W. Norton, 2008
Homage to Larry Brown
It seems a lot of reviewers were disappointed, expecting a work like Dubus' previous one House of Sand and Fog. This book is different. It is dedicated to the late great author Larry Brown, and, frankly, reads like a Larry Brown novel, particularly Fay.
If you ...
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