Publisher: HarperCollins

Review: Little House on the Prairie

January 25, 2013 Whitney Review 3 Comments
Review: Little House on the Prairie

I recently brushed off the dust and read it for the first time in over fifteen years. When  I first read Little House on the Prairie I was overwhelmed by the coolness of Laura playing in the tall prairie grass with her sunbonnet swinging down her back, with a vigilant look-out for Indians after chore […]

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Review: Farmer Boy

January 23, 2013 Whitney Review 1 Comment
Review: Farmer Boy

As much as I love the Little House books I don’t recall ever reading this installment of the series. Farmer Boy was really interesting and a different look at that time period (1860s) in upper state New York. It mainly focused on farming which was the families bread and butter/forte. I don’t posses a green […]

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Review: The Last Battle

December 12, 2012 Whitney Review 1 Comment
Review: The Last Battle

Well, not all of the Daughters of Eve return, Susan is conspicuously absent with the explanation given by past companions: Peter says that she is “no longer a friend of Narnia” Jill Pole — “she’s interested in nothing now-a-days except nylons and lipstick and invitations.” Eustace Scrubb — “What wonderful memories you have! Fancy you […]

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Review: The Silver Chair

December 10, 2012 Whitney Review 3 Comments
Review: The Silver Chair

Firstly, the beginning of this book is depressing (after Eustance and Jill awesomely escape the bullies at school).  Anyway… it is sad because much time has passed in the land of Narnia and King Caspian is old and pruny.  Thus, time is of the essence to bring back his missing son, Prince Rilian.  So after […]

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Review: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

June 1, 2012 Whitney Review 5 Comments
Review: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

I was so depressed after finishing Prince Caspian, learning that Peter and Susan were too old to return to Narnia, thinking these books would never be the same.  Well I was wrong. Edmund and Lucy seem more mature, perhaps because their elder siblings are out of the picture, and their cousin Eustace, pompously adds humor […]

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Little House in the Big Woods

February 22, 2012 Whitney Review 9 Comments
Little House in the Big Woods

  I first read the Little House books when I was seven and became a main staple on my bookshelf until I was thirteen,reading them (particularly this one) from cover to cover until they had to be thrown away; but I could recite them from heart anyway… In elementary school we practiced in the D.E.A.R. […]

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Book Review: The Wide Window

July 17, 2011 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Book Review: The Wide Window

After their uncle’s death the Baudelaires are moved to their Aunt Josephine’s who lives on the top of a cliff looking down on the sea.  She is scared of everything including the water below her home.  Soon after being intrusted to Josephine’s care she becomes infatuated with a pirate by the name of Captain Sham.  […]

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Reveiw: Envy

July 14, 2011 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Reveiw: Envy

Truthfully, this book pissed me off.  I’ve never been “and they lived happily ever after” reader, in fact, I prefer they don’t as it can sometimes be too cutesy.  In Envy, evil triumphs over good and it annoyed me that the two main characters I love to hate, Penelope and Carolina somehow always manage to […]

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Review: Rumors

July 9, 2011 Whitney Review 1 Comment
Review: Rumors

I thought for this review I’d do a rundown on all the characters. Elizabeth, it appears has been inducted into Sainthood after her untimely death and because of such, keeps creeping back into dark corners. Diana is looked upon as the poor younger sister to the deceased Elizabeth Holland and has tossed in her lap […]

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Book Review: The Luxe

July 6, 2011 Whitney Review 1 Comment
Book Review: The Luxe

At first, the Holland sisters, Elizabeth, and Diana seem to have it all being the desired socialites and now, despite her best friend Penelope’s resentment Elizabeth is suddenly engaged to Henry Schoonmaker.  Everything appears perfect until Elizabeth is thrown from a horse and buggy and disappears into the Hudson River. Anna Godbersen’s The Luxe is […]

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