Archive for the ‘Movie Material’ Category

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS by John Boyne

John Boyne’s novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is outstanding. It is beautifully written with a most powerful storyline. Nine year-old Bruno is an innocent, carefree boy growing up in Berlin during WWII. He has three “Best Friends For Life,” and wants to be an explorer when he grows up. Bruno lives in a beautiful mansion, complete with gardens and servants, along with his older sister Gretel, their lovely mother, and their father, a high ranking SS officer. The boy comes home one day after school, in 1943, and finds Maria, the family maid, packing his belongings into wooden crates, including things he had hidden and were “nobody’s business.” He learns that his family is moving away from Berlin and he must go with them, leaving behind his school, best friends and beloved grandparents.

May 19, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Germany, Holocaust, Movie Material  No Comments

EMPIRE OF HUMILIATION by James Jens Brusseau

As a Latin American woman I read Empire of Humiliation hoping for a novel that I could relate to, and I wasn’t disappointed. I loved the descriptions of Mexico DF which made me feel like I was back there again. I mean the description of dinner plates at outdoor restaurants getting so coated by the oily air pollution that you can write on them with your finger, that’s exactly how terrible it is. So for anyone who wants a look at nitty-gritty Mexico, at least the cities, this fulfills. Maybe it’s one of those things where because the author is a foreigner living in Mexico, he actually sees and feels some parts better than we do who have lived there since we were young.

May 14, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Debut Novel, International Intrigue, Latino Fiction, Mexico, Movie Material  No Comments

SAVE THE WHALES PLEASE by Konrad Karl Gatien & Sreescanda

Jan Everett is First Lady of the United States. She is also a fiercely dedicated Save the Whales activist. But she doesn’t safely limit herself to office fundraising and the rubber chicken speech circuit. She brings the same total commitment to testifying before the International Whaling Commission on behalf of a total ban on whale hunts as she does to personally sailing with and even leading crews that confront, harry, and seek to sink the pelagic whaling fleets…

May 8, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Debut Novel, International Intrigue, Movie Material, Thriller  No Comments