Thursday, January 14, 2010

The Lovely Bones Raven's Nest member review


About the book: On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.

Shutter Island Raven's Nest Member Review


About the book: From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Mystic River" comes the tie-in edition to a haunting psychological thriller in which two U.S. Marshals hunt an escaped mental patient. Opening on October 22, the film from Paramount Pictures is directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, and Ben Kingsley.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte


Emily Brontë’s only novel (she died a year later), Wuthering Heights remains one of literature’s most disturbing explorations into the dark side of romantic passion. Heathcliff and Cathy believe they’re destined to love each other forever, but when cruelty and snobbery separate them, their untamed emotions literally consume them.
Set amid the wild and stormy Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights, an unpolished and devastating epic of childhood playmates who grow into soul mates, is widely regarded as the most original tale of thwarted desire and heartbreak in the English language.

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