Category: Books

  • Kelle Wins A Silver Key in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards!

    Kelle had submitted her poem called Breath to a poetry contest a while back, but she put the contest out of her mind. One day her Geometry teacher mentioned that she was a winner! But he didn’t have the details. We did some searching around and found an article in the Millburn Patch with some…

  • Charles Darwin Quote

    Heard this for the first time today – think it is a keeper…. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

  • Happier?

    I just finished reading a book titled Happier. It is a New York Times Bestseller, written by Tal Ben-Shahar.  He is one of Harvard’s most popular lecturers, with his classes attended by over 1,400 students per semester. The book is a good guide to thinking about happiness and what we can do to become happier.  Once…

  • John Grisham’s First Short Story

    For all you John Grisham fans, you might know that he has released a collection of short stories, called Ford County.  Read an excerpt from the first story, called Fetching Raymond.

  • The Associate

    Just finished reading The Associate by John Grisham.  I haven’t read a Grisham book in a long time.  I had moved over to James Patterson – thank to my dad.  But I picked up a copy of the Associate at the local library and read through it very quickly.  The book is about a Yale…