Emma Donoghue’s Room Up For Charity Auction

Lauren Becker of Leave a Mark Auctions was kind enough to send me an email after my last post to let me know that a copy of Emma Donoghue’s Room is up for auction.  It’s not just any copy of Room, it’s a book marked up by author Emma Donoghue herself, with insider notes in the margins.  Proceeds from the auction go to First Book, an organization that provides books to children in need.

The auction ends on Wednesday December 22 at 11:59 EST.  If you are interested you can place your bid on the Leave a Mark website or contact Lauren at lauren51990 AT aol DOT com.

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REVIEW: Room by Emma Donoghue

“A book to read in one sitting.  When it’s over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.” -Audrey Niffenegger, Author of The Time Traveler’s Wife

I could not agree with Audrey Niffenegger more.  I happened upon Room by Emma Donoghue by pure chance when I got a new Kindle (yay!) and chose a book at random from the Amazon store to read on it.  I could not put it down and when I was finished I felt as though I understood the world as I never had before after seeing it through the eyes of Jack, the 5-year old narrator of Room.

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Eye Candy: All My Friends Are Dead

I don’t remember exactly how or where I stumbled across this, but today I randomly found myself on the website nomorefriends.net looking at a picture of a yellow book with an adorable green dinosaur and the text “All my friends are dead.”  Turns out that “All my friends are dead” is a new book, written by Avery Monsen and Jory John and, though it does seem a little dark and twisted, I have decided that I must have it!!

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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar…

For years I have been trying to find a good book about philosophy.  I have always found the ideas behind different philosophers and philosophical concepts to be very interesting and I’ve wanted to learn more.  The trouble is, most books on philosophy are written in such dull language that I couldn’t make it through the first chapter without falling asleep.

Therefore, when Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein’s book “Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar” caught my eye in a bookstore in Washington’s Reagan National Airport I just had to get it.  “Plato and a Platypus”, a New York Times Bestseller, is a book that is all about understanding philosophy through jokes.

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