Category: Weekly Reviews

Jim Kwik’s Limitless will give you some great tips on what learning means and how to do it most effectively. Kwik’s book begins with an inspirational story that will help you get going. Read Limitless to learn how to read faster, study smarter and use healthy methods to improve your mind!

Three out of five stars: ★★★☆☆ Warning: The movie deals with topics such as the animal industry, the film industry and animal cruelty. For those 15+ is such an important learning opportunity. Watch with caution if you are worried about graphic details. What was this movie about? This movie takes place when the world is…

The Lorax is an inspirational story filled with heartening songs that prepare you to save the world from global warming and deforestation. Our story begins when The Once-ler, an outcast young man, has a dream of building a new ‘Thneed.’ But he becomes greedy and his ego takes over his honesty and promise. Deforestation is…

The One and Only Ivan, Mighty Silverback, has lived in the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade just off of I-95 for more than 9,500 days…That’s over 25 years! But before that he had a life in the jungle. Thinking about this life is painful and Ivan won’t let himself do so until…

This movie is a fantastical journey that viewers will thoroughly enjoy watching! When a young woman must journey back to her dad’s house she will embark on a life-altering journey. Mary Katherine (or MK)’s dad is obsessed with tiny leaf people who protect and nurture the forest. But an evil civilization, known as the Boggans,…

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a wonderful book, full of a twisting tale about family, bloodlines and the meaning and importance of names. Reading this book really brings to light how names connect every person alive. Mr. García Márquez expresses the meaning behind the names in a beautiful 100 year storyline of the Buendía…

Marie Lu is a creative and expressive author, whose books always tell depths of story and the Kingdom of Back is no different. Nannerl Mozart is a musical prodigy, who longs to be remembered for her music and greatness, but the growth of her brother’s musical skills are challenging that. A mysterious stranger from a…

Hazel Grace Lancaster is a cancer survivor. Being so means she can exhibit signs of depression…so her mom sends her to a support group, led by an optimistic social worker in the center of a cross-shaped room in a church. Here she meets Augustus Waters, also a cancer survivor, with a prosthetic leg. Follow the…

The mystery surrounding the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Public Library is certainly a conundrum. Fire alarms are common at any library but true fires…not so much. This fire spread far enough to destroy over 400,000 books and damage 700,000 more. Susan Orlean’s book, “The Library Book” explores this mystery as well as the…