Throughout the month of November I read a funny and interesting book called The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg. The book was a mixture of historical facts and humorous text. The start of the story begins like this; Homer and his older brother Harold live in a old town in Maine in 1863. T...
Homer a young boy must save his honest older brother that was tricked into signing up for the war. As Homer makes his way to find his brother he faces challenges that he must solve. Homer is very good at lying which helps him in his journey but sometime his lies are exaggerated that people do not...
"But the thing is, you never really know what's going to happen next. Because anything can happen. Good things, bad things. And scary, crazy things, when the world starts going all to pieces just when you least expect it." —The Fire Pony, pp. 90-91 Fire. It's the driving force behind every...
I really like Rodman Philbrick's writing style. The narrative always flows along at a fast, highly readable pace, skating lightly above the troubled waters of the suspenseful stories that he tends to tell. REM World, in that respect, is like all of Rodman Philbrick's novels, and I doubt that many...
This is the dramatic, heartwrenching tale of Max and Worm, two outsiders who turn to each other for survival. Written in a haunting yet uplifting first-person voice, this compelling novel is destined to become a classic.
This is a captivating futuristic novel where it's author, Rodman Philbrick, does a masterful job of engaging the reader through its characters and plot. "If you're reading this, it must be a thousand years from now. Because nobody around here reads anymore. Why bother, when you can just probe i...
Title: tCOFFINSGenre: tThriller/Fantasy?Author: tRodman PhilbrickISBN: t0-312-87273-9The BookI came upon this book on the "sale" table of the Coles bookstore here in Toronto. The brief summary/preview of the novel on the flap caught my interest. A quick read of the first page immediately grabbed...
There's a quote in the interview given by author Rodman Philbrick at the end of this book that I think must really give a lot of buoyancy to the aspirations of struggling new writers. Here it is: Q: "You've said that Freak the Mighty is about a writer learning to find his voice, and that theme re...
Terror is still watching from inside the haunted house on Cherry Street, in this second installment of the sizzling summer horror trilogy. A howlingly evil welcome awaits the poor baby-sitter taking care of Jason and Sally when their parents leave town. For the only thing the house hates worse th...
The haunted house on Cherry Street has taken one victim: Jason and Sally's baby-sitter. But that's not enough. The house wants Jason and Sally, too. Just like that boy Bobby. He had an "accident." A deadly one.This is Jason and his little sister's last chance to get out alive. Because the house o...
Freak is riding in the back, you can barely see him in the window, and he’s got this big grin that makes me feel like everything is going to be okay, the way everybody keeps saying. I go, “Is it okay if I carry him inside?” and the Fair Gwen says, “Of course.” ...
Thrilling and exciting and all that stuff—but I couldn’t concentrate. I turned a page and realized I’d read through half the battle without understanding a word. Something else was clamoring for attention. I put the book down. What was it? Sally. Her voice was drifting faintly down the hallway. S...