The Penguin Post

Have you ever watched the motion picture version of a book you loved more than any other?? There is something both incredible and tragic about watching one of your beloved books squeezed into a movie that is realistically phenomenal yet absolutely devastating in accuracy. Last night was one of those incredible and tragic nights for me. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie is one of those books that leaves you thinking after the plot and story has ended. All of a sudden, all of the details are clicking into place, making what was once a jumbled and befuddling puzzle a crystal clear surprise! This image provided by  John Keogh . This Agatha Christie piece is the tenth of many in a series of murder-mystery novels starring the ever-so-intelligent detective, Hercule Poirot. This novel takes place on a train with a variety of unique and seemingly unconnected passengers, including Detective Poirot.  When the train gets caught in a snow storm, becomes stran...

Find the "lowly," take them home, Never let their souls be known. Give them hope and food and bed. Hope and pray they're not shot dead. Diane Ackerman's novel,  The Zookeeper's Wife ,    is yet another phenomenal and true story taking place during World War II. What once was a perfect paradise quickly became a war zone, graveyard, and ultimately a shelter that saved many. In Poland - the setting of the novel - lives a family of three humans and a ton of animals. A zookeeper, his wife, and their young son surround themselves with the many exotic and fascinating animals of their Warsaw Zoo in Poland. As the story unravels with the progression of the war and Nazi occupation, the reader feels as though hidden in the shadows along with the many Jewish escapees who were snuck out of the ghettos by the zookeeper or on the run from German soldiers. The story is amazingly realistic in the sense that the reader feels the tension, heat, and anxiety the characters feel...