The Boy From the Woods by Harlan Coben (2020) – Fiction 3.5 Sustenance. Readers need books to survive and like eating food, sometimes you just need something quick to get you by. The Boy From the Woods is a quick thriller. The characters are intriguing and unique, all damaged in some way or another.…
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019) – Fiction 4.5/5 While labeled fiction, this story is only about fictionalized character. It is not about a fictionalized place. The Nickel School, where main characters Elwood and Turner have been sent to be “reformed” is based on an actual school that existed and operated in Marianna, Florida…
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) – Fiction 4/5 We are bringing it back to the 1880s and good ole’ British lit. I first ready Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the summer before my senior year of high school, preparing for my AP Literature class. Even if…
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