KIS books

Manga Shakespeare

2009-10-07T22:33:00.000-07:00

Several of Shakespeare's dramas have been made in to Manga. We now have Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar in the HS Library.

A whole serie of fantasy books

2009-09-07T03:14:00.000-07:00

We now have all the books that have been published so far in George R R Martins serie A Song of Fire and Ice.
A Game of thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows

Available in the library?

The Oxford Dictionary of Plays by Michael Patterson

2009-08-16T21:58:00.000-07:00

Read a summary (under details) and check availability in KIS library catalog.

Your competent child by Jesper Juul

2009-08-16T21:53:00.000-07:00

One of the best books of parenting (in my personal opinion), but quite challenging. I dare every parent to read it!
Is it available?

2009-08-16T21:46:00.000-07:00

Usha K R recently visited KIS for the annual writers workshop. The library then acquired 2 of her novels, The Chosen and A Girl and a River. We got to tape Usha talking briefly about her authorship. Watch it below.

Author Usha K R is talking about her writing .

New books on contemporary India

2009-08-10T01:39:00.000-07:00

Books mentioned in this video are:

India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha
India and the Global Financial Crisis by Y. V. Reddy
Being Indian by Pavan K Varma
India's new capitalists by Harish Damodaran
India Unbound by Gurcharan Das
Crossing the Rubicon by C Raja Mohan

Invitation to Terror by Frank Furedi

2009-08-05T22:15:00.000-07:00

The Expanding Empire of the Unknown.
Is the book available?

Expressionism by Norbert Wolf

2009-08-05T22:12:00.000-07:00

Which artists are represented? Is the book available? Check the library catalog!

The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver

2009-08-05T03:43:00.000-07:00

Watch an interview with author Jeffery Deaver about how he goes about when writing a book. Quite interesting! The Broken Window is actually the latest in a series of novels about the quadriplegic homicide detective Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs. Maybe someone has watched the film with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie that was made out of the first one, The Bone Collector. Unfortunately we don't have any of the earlier Lincoln Rhyme novels in the library, but this book works quite well for itself.

I tried to embed this video, but for some reason it didn't work. You'll have to click on the link!

You can hear me now by Nicholas P Sullivan

2009-08-05T03:40:00.001-07:00

How Microloans and Cell phones are connecting th world's poor to the Global economy.
Available?

The Beast by Roslund-Hellstrom

2009-08-05T03:38:00.001-07:00

Available in the library?

The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo

2009-07-30T02:17:00.000-07:00

A Harry Hole mystery.
If you like mystery novels, I recommend Jo Nesbo's books about Harry Hole. They are very intriguing.
Check which one's are available here.

The No-Fault Classroom by Sura HArt and Victoria Kindle Hodson

2009-07-30T01:51:00.000-07:00

Is this book available in the library?

Art Now vol 3, Ed. by Hans Werner Holzwarth

2009-07-30T01:48:00.000-07:00

A cutting edge selection of today's most exciting artists.

Available in the library?

Creating a world without poverty by Muhammad Yunus

2009-07-28T03:49:00.000-07:00

Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism.
Available? Check the library catalogue!

Banker to the poor by Muhammad Yunus

2009-07-28T03:45:00.000-07:00

The autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, Banker to the poor.

Available in the library? Check here!

The Last lecture by Randy Pausch

2009-07-28T03:38:00.000-07:00

"When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn’t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave—“Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”—wasn’t about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because “time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think”). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come. "

From the website The Last Lecture where you can also watch the lecture that inspired the book.

Is this book available in the library?

Mohandas by Rajmohan Gandhi

2009-07-27T02:28:00.000-07:00

Find out if this book is available in the library.

Economics, 6th edition by John Sloman

2009-07-18T00:51:00.000-07:00

Is this book available? Check the library catalogue!

Psychology books by Mike Cardwell and Cara Flanagan.

2009-07-17T21:30:00.000-07:00

Psychology AS, The Complete Companion
Psychology A2, The Complete Companion
Psychology AS, The Exam Companion
and Psychology AS the teacher's companion by Sara Berman, Cara Flanagan & Adrian Frost.
Links go to the library catalogue.

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

2009-07-15T21:46:00.001-07:00

Is this book available? See the library catalogue.

The schools our children deserve by Alfie Kohn

2009-07-15T21:44:00.002-07:00

Is this book available? Check the library catalogue!

The labyrinth of solitude by Octavio Paz

2009-07-15T21:44:00.001-07:00

Primo Levi, The monkey's wrench

2009-07-15T21:40:00.000-07:00

The enterprise of knowledge, by John L Tomkinson

2009-05-18T04:05:00.000-07:00

The Enterprise of knowledge by John L Tomkinson from Anna Kagedal on Vimeo.

Hear what Bryan Plymale has to say about this book that we recently got for the HS library.

High Performance Sports conditioning, Ed Bill Foran

2009-05-08T03:46:00.000-07:00

Modern training for ultimate athletic development.

Sports injuries, their preventment and treatment, by Lars Peterson and Per Renström

2009-05-08T03:41:00.000-07:00

The Good Neighbors 1, Kin by Holly Black and Ted Naifeh

2009-05-07T01:22:00.000-07:00

"From Booklist
Rue Silver’s everyday life with her professor father and ethereal mother comes crashing to a surreal end when her mother one day simply disappears. As Rue starts noticing oddities in her little town—people with wings or animal faces, or vines that seem to sprout up over everything at night—she tries to tell herself that such things would be crazy. When her extended family appear and claim that she is part of a hidden faerie world, Rue finds herself embroiled in a magical fight for power. The first volume in a series, this book goes a long way in setting up a foreboding, darkly mysterious atmosphere while giving the reader quick details for characterization. Black, one of the authors of the Spiderwick Chronicles, does a wonderful job of weaving an alien faerie world through Rue’s urban landscape, and Naifeh’s art, rich with shadows, is expressive and angular and pulls the reader into the story with a solid sense of place. Urban-fantasy readers of Neil Gaiman, Charles de Lindt, and Terri Windling will be immediate fans of this title. Grades 10-12. --Tina Coleman"

The compassionate classroom by Sura Hart and Victoria Kindle Hodson

2009-05-06T21:35:00.000-07:00

"This book is a practical How To Guide for creating emotionally safe learning environments. The same principles used in the classroom can be applied to the entire school community to transform it into a lab for learning to live responsibly, effectively, and compassionately in all areas of life."

Public Speaking for dummies

2009-05-06T20:53:00.000-07:00

For all of you who don't like to speak in public, but have to do it anyway.

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

2009-05-06T20:51:00.000-07:00

Maran Illustrated computers

2009-05-06T20:42:00.000-07:00

Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams

2009-05-04T22:54:00.000-07:00

Guitar world it is!

2009-05-04T22:52:00.000-07:00

Shopaholic and Sister, Remember me? by Sophie Kinsella

2009-05-04T22:47:00.000-07:00

Discworld series 1-4 by Terry Pratchett

2009-05-04T22:39:00.000-07:00

The colour of magic, The light fantastic, Equal rites and Mort are the first 4 novels in the Discworld series by Sir Terry Pratchett.

We have also recently bought Thud! which is the 34th Discworld novel.

Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero by William Gibson

2009-05-04T22:34:00.000-07:00

A lot of new books

2009-04-26T22:26:00.001-07:00

After the book fair we have plenty of new books coming in to all 3 libraries. The library got to pick up books worth 15% of the total amount you bought at one of the companies stall. And there was quite a few books we think you will enjoy.

We also replaced some of the books we already had with fresh copies. We now have 6 fresh copies of Agatha Christie novels, and one new copy of the Lord of the Rings.

More guitar book votes please!

2009-04-14T02:21:00.000-07:00

Ok - I need more votes on which guitar book to get, so I have prolonged the voting time.

Read this post, and then vote to the right please!

Update: Even a few more dates left to vote!

Unaccustomed earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

2009-04-14T02:05:00.000-07:00

Some books I just want to grab immediately and start reading when they arrive at the library. Just look at how beautiful the cover is? And I have read so much praise for it.

Unaccustomed earth was the list of the 10 best books of 2008 by the New york Times:

"There is much cultural news in these precisely observed studies of modern-day Bengali-Americans — many of them Ivy-league strivers ensconced in prosperous suburbs who can’t quite overcome the tug of traditions nurtured in Calcutta. With quiet artistry and tender sympathy, Lahiri creates an impressive range of vivid characters — young and old, male and female, self-knowing and self-deluding — in engrossing stories that replenish the classic themes of domestic realism: loneliness, estrangement and family discord."

Yes, this is also a collection of short stories, just like her previous Pulitzer prize winning book Interpreter of maladies.

And I am sure this book must be interesting for many students at KIS, read this:

"here are eight stories of people who struck their roots into unaccustomed earth, either themselves or by their parents: typically Indian roots in America, sometimes via England (as in the case of Lahiri’s own parents)" From the Blurb

Ok - I should stop quoting other people right now, and start reading it.

The good universities guide 2009, Australia

2009-04-14T01:58:00.000-07:00

For those of you who are planning to go to university in Australia, this new University guide might be interesting. And here is the corresponding website.

The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo

2009-04-14T01:50:00.000-07:00

Since Nemesis has been constantly checked out since it arrived in the HS library, I felt we needed some more books by Jo Nesbo. It seems difficult to get the 2 first books in the Harry Hole series (The bat man and the Cockroaches) but the Redbreast is the 3rd. (Nemesis is the 4th).

Read more about Nesbo and Harry Hole.

Business and management revision workbook

2009-04-14T01:44:00.000-07:00

"This Revision Workbook is intended for use by students following the International Baccalaureate course in Business and Management and accompanies the main textbook Business and Management, available from IBID Press."

Read more

Mind Explosion Max out your brain for exam success, by Verity Aylward

2009-04-14T01:30:00.000-07:00

Would you like to…

* Revise for less time but to maximum effect?
* Get motivated and stay on track?
* Tap into your own brainpower - with surprising results?
* Re-learn and recall stacks of notes in short sharp bursts of time?
* Diagnose specific ways in which you can improve your grades?
* Use exam practice to find your winning strategy?
* Confront anxiety and stress - or use it to your own advantage?
* Maximize your exam performance on the day?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then the principles and strategies taught in Mind Explosion: Max Out Your Brain For Exam Success are for you.

Read more about the author and the book and why not check out the blog with the compelling name iloveexams.blogspot.com.

Guitar books for the library

2009-04-06T21:41:00.000-07:00

Inspired by the Great Music Festival arranged at the school last week, I decided to get some guitar songbooks for the library. There are so many out there, so I would like your opinion on what to get.

Below are links to a few books. Look at the links to find more info on the books, and which songs are included, and then vote in the poll to the right.

You can of course give me another suggestion as well, then just comment on this post (here is an extensive list of books to give you some ideas) . But please write your name, so that I can get back to you.

Monster book of rock guitar
The definitive guitar songbook
Guitar Hero songbook
The Beatles complete Chord songbook
Forget about the books! Subscribe to Guitar world instead!

Peeps by Scott Westerfeld

2009-04-02T03:07:00.000-07:00

Book review - Peeps by Scott Westerfeld from Anna Kagedal on Vimeo.

In this video I am talking about Peeps by Scott Westerfeld. The Sequel The last days is also mentioned.

You can really hear that I am in a school, all though I tried to hide from the most public spaces this time. But at one point the bell rings. School it is.

Results of the poll about fiction organization

2009-03-31T22:00:00.000-07:00

The poll about how to organize the fiction section is now closed, and I am happy that 47 of you took the time to answer.

The result was clear, you want the fiction section to be organized in one, hardcover and paperbacks mixed instead of the current organization with hardcover and paperbacks separated.

So - we'll get onto that task, read more!

Robotics books

2009-03-29T21:04:00.000-07:00

Early this semester we got a bunch of new Robotics books for the library. These are the titles:

Advanced NXT: The Da Vinci Inventions Book (Technology in Action) by Matthias Paul Scholz
The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build by Martijn Boogaarts et al
FIRST LEGO League: The Unofficial Guide by James Kelly (read it for free at google books)
The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders: Ten Inventions to Spark Your Imagination by James Floyd Kelly
NXT Robotics Competition Workbook by James Floyd Kelly and Jonathan Daudelin
Classroom Activities for the Busy Teacher by Damien Kee

I have a friend who is also into robotics, Check out his R2D2 here! And here is a video clip from my previous library - one of the staff got a farewell gift.

Uglies, Pretties, Specials by Scott Westerfeld

2009-03-27T16:14:00.000-07:00

"Uglies is the first book of the trilogy. The second book is Pretties and the third is Specials. It's about a world in which everyone has an operation when they turn sixteen, making them supermodel beautiful. Big eyes, full lips, no one fat or skinny. This seems like a good thing, but it's not. Especially if you're one of the uglies, a bunch of radical teens who've decided they want to keep their own faces. (How anti-social of them.)"

This trilogy is no longer a trilogy since the forth book, Extras, has been published. Extras is still for the Library to acquire though.

By the same author, we already have Peeps (vampires again) and it's sequel The last days in the MS library. I am reading Peeps at the moment, and I think I would have liked it more if I was a teenager, the author tries a little too hard to sound like someone "cool" for my liking.

Uglies was checked out the moment it arrived, so I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I will.

New new books display

2009-03-27T03:31:00.000-07:00

If you haven't been to the library recently you might not know that we now have a new display for new books. This one shows the covers better and gives an easier overview, in my humble opinion. Thanks to Alphonse who made it for us!

Tamil books

2009-03-27T03:23:00.000-07:00

We are working on a section for non english books in the library, and we are adding quite a few books in Tamil. This is one of the recent purchases of Tamil books - Obama by Senthil Nathan. (blog in Tamil). Unfortunately my Tamil needs some work, so I can't actually say anything more about this book than the fact that it is about Barack Obama and in Tamil.

As you can see I couldn't even find an online image of the book, so you'll have to do with this one from my phonecamera.

If anyone has read the book - please write a comment.

Introducing the book review on video

2009-03-24T05:20:00.000-07:00

Introduction to book blog from Anna Kagedal on Vimeo.

In this video clip, I talk about the book blog and the video reviews in general and recommend this book: A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini

Fashion books and blogs

2009-03-23T02:48:00.000-07:00

The library has now updated it's collection of fashion books with the following books:

Style A to Zoe by Rachel Zoe
A guide to Quality, Taste and Style by Tim Gunn
The little Dictionary of Fashion by Christian Dior.

And here are a few inspirational fashion blogs for you as well:

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

2009-03-10T01:35:00.000-07:00

I am sure not many people have been able to avoid Stephenie Meyers extremely successful books about the vampire Edward and human Bella in the Twilight series. The HS library acquired the series last semester and they have been on constant waiting lists since then. We now have 2 copies of the two first novels, Twilight and New Moon to reduce the waiting a little.

The Host is Meyers first novel intended for a grown up audience. Aliens, called souls, has invaded the earth and the soul Wanderer is placed in the body of the human Melanie. Melanie is among the few humans left on the earth and she refuses to leave her body. The impossible happens, and they become friends.

I thought this book was a bit slow in the beginning, but after some time I really enjoyed it.

New college books from The Princeton Review

2009-03-10T01:14:00.000-07:00

The Best 368 Colleges, 2009 edition "College students (120,000 of them) reveal what life is really like at the nation's top schools. This must-have guide gives you college rankings like no other and covers all the essentials -- from academics to social life to financial aid, and everything in between."

Guide to College majors, 2009 edition "Choosing an undergraduate major is a difficult decision that impacts a student’s college years and future career path. Guide to College Majors includes the most current information possible on over 350 of the most popular majors. Perfect for high school students who want to plan ahead and for college students in the process of choosing a major!"

You find them at the new books shelf at the HS library.

Current Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques

2009-03-05T21:54:00.000-08:00

We have recently been gifted this book by one of the editors, Sean R. Gallagher.

The online version of this book has recently won the PROSE award for excellency in Biology and Life Sciences

"Current Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques (CPET) provides every researcher with the skills and understanding of fundamental laboratory procedures needed to ensure greater success at the bench. CPET takes the novice researcher from very basic skills like weight and volume measurement, through reagent preparation and the use of routine instrumentation, and finally into advanced topics such as real-time PCR and bioinformatics."

Quote from here.

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

2009-03-05T01:45:00.000-08:00

American Wife is loosely based on the life of Laura Bush, and some of the people close to her and her husband can be recognized. Other than that, this is fiction.

"A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice learned the virtues of politeness early on from her stolid parents and small Wisconsin hometown. But a tragic accident when she was seventeen shattered her identity and made her understand the fragility of life and the tenuousness of luck. So more than a decade later, when she met boisterous, charismatic Charlie Blackwell, she hardly gave him a second look: (...)Comfortable in her quiet and unassuming life, she felt inured to his charms. And then, much to her surprise, Alice fell for Charlie."

Quote from the website of Curtis Sittenfeld

About this blog

2009-03-04T03:11:00.000-08:00

This is a blog where new additions to the MS and HS libraries at Kodaikanal International School will be presented. All books will have its cover posted together with a few lines about the book. Some books will be reviewed by students and staff at KIS, and comments by other readers are very much appreciated.

If you want to contribute with a review, you ar most welcome to do so. Send your review to the HeadLibrarian. (This link will only work if you are on the KIS network.)

The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray

2009-03-04T02:12:00.000-08:00

Gemma Doyle lives in India but when a tragedy happens to her family she is sent of to a boarding school in England to learn how to behave like a favorable young lady, to be suitable for marriage. She is troubled by visions of the Realms, and is followed by a strange young man. She becomes friends with three other girls at the school, who all have more or less tragic lifes. The girls finds a way to enter Realms with tragic consequenses. The only one who can set out to bring the Realms back in control of an order, is Gemma.

I read the first novel in the series, A great and terrible beauty, but I didn't feel the urge to continue with the other two. Probably these books will do better or a somewhat younger audience. But the covers are beautiful!

Read more about the trilogy and the author Libba Bray.

Nemesis by Jo Nesbø

2009-03-04T02:08:00.000-08:00

Jo Nesbø is a Norweigan crime writer and Nemesis is the 4th book in his series about cop Harry Hole. Nesbø is by many considered to be in the top league of crime writers right now.

More about Jo Nesbø on his official website.

The Associate by John Grisham

2009-03-04T01:54:00.000-08:00

John Grisham probably doesn't need any closer presentation. The Associate is the latest legal thriller and his 22nd novel.

Read more about John Grisham on his website.

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

2009-03-04T00:13:00.000-08:00

Revolutionary Road Richard Yates debut from 1961 as recently become a blockbuster film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. (You know - Titanic?)

"Set in 1955, the novel focuses on the hopes and aspirations of Frank and April Wheeler, self-assured Connecticut suburbanites who see themselves as very different from their neighbors in the Revolutionary Hill Estates. ... Seeking to break out of their suburban rut, April convinces Frank they should move to Paris, where she will work and support him while he realizes his vague ambition to be something other than an office worker. Unfortunately..."

Quote from Wikipedia.

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

2009-03-04T00:07:00.000-08:00

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese is an unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.

About the author in the Hindu.

BBC list of books

2009-03-03T21:37:00.000-08:00

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.
3) Extra rules for us who aren't super intellectual. Put an 'o' if you've seen the movie/tv series

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (o, x)
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (o,x)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (o,x)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x)
The Bible (x)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (x)
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (x)
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare (No I haven't read the complete works, but quite a few.)
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x)
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (no but I soon will!)
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (o)
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (x)
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams(x)
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x)
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x)
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (x)
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (x)
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x)
Emma - Jane Austen (x)
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (o,x)
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (x)
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (X)
Animal Farm - George Orwell (x)
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (x)
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (x)
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (x)
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt (x)
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (x)
On The Road - Jack Kerouac (x)
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (o,x)
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (x)
Dracula - Bram Stoker (o,x)
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (x)
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x)
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker (o,x)
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (x)
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x)
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (o)
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (No but I will after my daughters birthday)
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (o)
Hamlet - William Shakespeare (x)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (o,x)
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Number of read (x): 41
Number of watched(o): 9

My favourites on this list (in no particular order) are: Life of Pi, The lord of the rings, Crime and punishment, The Secret History. The Secret Garden

Voices from KIS about The Shack

2009-02-24T02:19:00.000-08:00

Principal Geoff Fisher about The Shack:

"The Shack made me think and involved me emotionally as well as intellectually. I gained a different view of how I might relate to God and how he might relate to me. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in being challenged about faith."

The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga

2009-02-23T23:34:00.000-08:00

The White Tiger is a compelling first novel about Balram Halwai, the White Tiger. His family is too poor to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centers, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world. As Balram agonizes over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he can break out of his cage - by murdering his master. The White Tiger presents a raw India, both thrilling and shocking. , The White Tiger is a gripping book and while its narrator is amoral, cynical, unrepentant, he is still deeply endearing.

Review by Cheri Herrbolt