The Penguin Post

Not a word. Kein Wort. You cannot say anything.  Absolut nichts. One word will send your soul to the mercy of the executioners outside your house. You are not safe... anywhere. One word, spoken or found, that does not match up perfectly with what the soldiers are brainwashed to believe is true will get you and everyone you love sent to their deaths in a matter of seconds. This image of Nazi-occupied Germany is provided by  WWII Hitler Third Reich History .  World War II Germany brought so much secrecy, terror, and uncertainty to the individuals inhabiting the country, especially the good samaritans who chose to save lives rather than take them. The Book Thief,  by Markus Zusak, is an excellent fiction novel that portrays so many aspects of the war and the strains on everyday livelihood in Germany during these desperate times. While I have read a few war novels now, The Book Thief still stands as my favorite of them all. Zusak is able to create...

This book is for all of those who fantasize of other worlds, of crazy plots, of insane people doing a hundred radical things instead of one reasonable thing. This book is dedicated to all of the daydreamers, the ones with their heads in the sand, and  the ones in love with ostriches  (if this reference does not make an immediate connection to your inner Scooby-Doo fan, I highly recommend listening to these lyrics for further clarification and a good laugh). Twilight . Yes, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. I understand that this book series has made either one of three impressions on you: 1) You have watched the first movie, was completely appalled by the horrendous acting and special effects, and decided that the series was worth absolutely none of your time. 2) You were bombarded with a slew of crazy, fan-girl dialogue that left you hearing high-pitched screeches defending one incredibly cute actor - by their standards - or the other without actually discussing any of the p...

Where is our world heading? With all this technology and all of our attention being immersed by those monotonous and cruel blue-lit screens , will people ever be able to have time to live a little? To talk to one another? To read? To write? To be happy? The classic novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, displays an unimaginable future - for all you book-lovers out there - of a world possessed by fire and intelligent stupidity. Yes, this oxymoron is intentional. This dystopian  novel revolves around a society where happiness is found by vicariously living through the soap operas displayed on the big screens within one's own home for hours on end. People overdose on medications because they feel nothing throughout their meaningless days, and are revived by hospitals only to continue living the rest of their pathetic lives wanting nothing other than to feel... to actually feel emotions within them. This world has been created to maintain an equal and dependable community of mindl...