2008 Woodie Awards
A Sunny Spring Book List
Amber Henry
Issue date: 4/2/08 Section: Entertainment
Finally spring has sprung! A time for sunny weather, green leaves, and starts of long-awaited sport seasons. Messiah has an amazing campus, perfect for this beautiful time of year. One day, take a little time away from all that course reading and get lost in one of these three books recommended for some sunny reading! Nestle yourself underneath one of Messiah's newly blooming trees on the grass and take a brain break as we near the end of the semester, and more importantly-the year!
A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book by Frank Warren
Who knew that small-business owner Frank Warren would start what once was a community art project-the PostSecret series. Since 2004 Warren has received more than 150,000 creatively decorated anonymous postcards from people of all backgrounds and nationalities. They are filled with secrets that senders had never before revealed to anyone. This intriguing collection explores our collective confessions, provocative to heartbreaking.
A Lifetime of Secrets shows private thoughts, hope, pain, and wishes. Sent in by men and women as young as eight and as old as eighty-this book couldn't get any more attention-grabbing. Warren's latest collection reveals secrets that have haunted their authors for a lifetime. He has also shared these PostSecrets on his award-winning blog, PostSecret.com, in an worldwide art exhibit, and in three other bestselling books: PostSecret, My Secret, and The Secret Lives of Men and Women.
Wake by Lisa McMann
Author Lisa McMann explores the science of dreaming as she lets readers discover that not all dreams are sweet. In the fictional novel Wake, seventeen-year-old Janie gets sucked into other people's dreams for as long as she can remember, and it's getting old. The falling, the naked-but-nobody-notices, and the sex-crazed dreams guarantee her to not get a good nights rest herself. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime. She can't tell anybody about her gift, as no one would believe her anyway. Or worse, they'd all think she was a psychopath crying out for attention.
So Janie lives on the extreme, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control. Then, during one of her normal dream routines, she falls into a gruesome nightmare. This isn't just any normal nightmare that she's experienced before. The nightmare she has found herself in is not only one that sends chills down her spine, but also for the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant. As you read through this novel, you find yourself like Janie, an observer.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hossini
Author of best-selling novel The Kite Runner, Hossini, in his new work A Thousand Splendid Suns, tells a breathtaking story set against the unstable events of Afghanistan's last thirty years. This narrative focuses on the fear, violence, hope and faith that occurred during the Soviet invasion and the Taliban rebuilding. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought together by the tragedy of war. Their struggles to survive, raise a family, and find happiness are all playing against the odds of the history around them.
Like The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns is an amazing account of three decades of Afghan history and a story of family and friendship. It is an outstanding, tear-jerking book of a ruthless war, an improbable companionship, and an unyielding devotion to one's country and those in it. For those who enjoyed The Kite Runner, this book may be another one of your favorites.
A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book by Frank Warren
Who knew that small-business owner Frank Warren would start what once was a community art project-the PostSecret series. Since 2004 Warren has received more than 150,000 creatively decorated anonymous postcards from people of all backgrounds and nationalities. They are filled with secrets that senders had never before revealed to anyone. This intriguing collection explores our collective confessions, provocative to heartbreaking.
A Lifetime of Secrets shows private thoughts, hope, pain, and wishes. Sent in by men and women as young as eight and as old as eighty-this book couldn't get any more attention-grabbing. Warren's latest collection reveals secrets that have haunted their authors for a lifetime. He has also shared these PostSecrets on his award-winning blog, PostSecret.com, in an worldwide art exhibit, and in three other bestselling books: PostSecret, My Secret, and The Secret Lives of Men and Women.
Wake by Lisa McMann
Author Lisa McMann explores the science of dreaming as she lets readers discover that not all dreams are sweet. In the fictional novel Wake, seventeen-year-old Janie gets sucked into other people's dreams for as long as she can remember, and it's getting old. The falling, the naked-but-nobody-notices, and the sex-crazed dreams guarantee her to not get a good nights rest herself. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime. She can't tell anybody about her gift, as no one would believe her anyway. Or worse, they'd all think she was a psychopath crying out for attention.
So Janie lives on the extreme, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control. Then, during one of her normal dream routines, she falls into a gruesome nightmare. This isn't just any normal nightmare that she's experienced before. The nightmare she has found herself in is not only one that sends chills down her spine, but also for the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant. As you read through this novel, you find yourself like Janie, an observer.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hossini
Author of best-selling novel The Kite Runner, Hossini, in his new work A Thousand Splendid Suns, tells a breathtaking story set against the unstable events of Afghanistan's last thirty years. This narrative focuses on the fear, violence, hope and faith that occurred during the Soviet invasion and the Taliban rebuilding. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought together by the tragedy of war. Their struggles to survive, raise a family, and find happiness are all playing against the odds of the history around them.
Like The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns is an amazing account of three decades of Afghan history and a story of family and friendship. It is an outstanding, tear-jerking book of a ruthless war, an improbable companionship, and an unyielding devotion to one's country and those in it. For those who enjoyed The Kite Runner, this book may be another one of your favorites.
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