Essays on Book Report

A lottery is a means of raising money by selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random. Happiness and joy are what you would expect after winning a lottery, but this isn’t the case in the story chosen. The...

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is about the lives of four Chinese women who fled China in the 1940s and their very American daughters. Every chapter, the point of view changes from the mothers to the daughters and shows what is going through their...

Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India. He was educated in England but returned to India in 1882. A decade later, Kipling married Caroline Balestier and settled in Brattleboro, Vermont, where he wrote The Jungle Book (1894), among a host of...

Corrie ten Boom was born in Haarlem, Netherlands on April 15, 1892. Her real birth name is Cornelia ten Boom, she acquired the nickname “Corrie” by her friends and family since she was a small child. She was the youngest of 4 children, with 2...

Man Mission by Eytan Uliel is a story collection of different journeys that four men undertook in fifteen years. The creation of the annual Man Missions occurred when these four friends were university students, a time full of hopes and dreams. These missions, however, didn’t...

Yesterday by Samyann is a book of reincarnation. Amanda Parker a young woman saves a police officer at the state train station. Officer Mark Callahan slides off his saddle, leaves his horse helpless, he falls heavily into the clutter of wreckage. The whole damage at...

Starting a new life with a new identity, in a different body, in a different era with no knowledge of your past life is reincarnation. Whether or not you truly believe in the concept, one can agree that remembering details from your past will mostly...

Man Mission: Four Men, Fifteen Years, One Epic Journey, by Eytan Uliel, is a wonderfully written story about friendship, travel, adventure, commitment, hardship, and personal growth. It can be read as an engaging adventure travelogue, but it is much, much more. Man Mission tells the...

All Good Things: A Jack Hart Mystery by Rosemary Reeve is a suspenseful, action-packed mystery. Jack Hart is an associate at a prestigious law firm in Seattle. He has a warm friendship with (and secret crush on) his coworker, Harmony. When her dad (who is...

Children’s books are always touch-and-go when it comes to their content and meaning. Every now and then, one comes across a real gem. This is that gem. I cannot give higher praise to Daniel Murray for his well-thought-out and thoroughly enjoyable book, The Monkey and...