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Review: A Field Guide to Awkward Silences

Title: A Field Guide to Awkward Silences Author: Alexandra Petri Publisher: NAL Publication Date: June 2015 ISBN: 9780451469601   Synopsis from Goodreads: Afraid of rejection? Alexandra Petri has auditioned for America’s Next Top Model. Afraid of looking like an idiot? Alexandra Petri lost Jeopardy! by answering “Who is that dude?” on national TV. Afraid of badContinue reading “Review: A Field Guide to Awkward Silences”

Review: The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

Title: The Opposite of Loneliness Author: Marina King Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 2014 ISBN: 9781471139604 Synopsis from Goodreads: Marina Keegan’s star was on the rise when she graduated from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waitingContinue reading “Review: The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan”

Review: The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock

*I received this book on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Last Pilot Author: Benjamin Johncock Publisher: Picador Publication Date: June 2015 ISBN: 9781250066640 Synopsis from Goodreads: Jim Harrison is a test pilot in the United States Air Force, one of the exalted few. While America becomes swept up in the fervor of theContinue reading “Review: The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock”

Review: Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Title: Survivor Author: Chuck Palahniuk Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication Date: 1999 ISBN: 9780393338072 Synopsis from Goodreads: Tender Branson—last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into Flight 2039’s recorder. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. But before it does,Continue reading “Review: Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk”

Review: Night by Elie Wiesel

Title: Night Author: Elie Wiesel Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: Hill and Wang ISBN: 9780374500016 Synopsis from Goodreads: Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second WorldContinue reading “Review: Night by Elie Wiesel”