Every year, Country Day high school students are assigned one required summer reading book. This summer, the book was “The Day The World Came to Town” by Jim DeFede. In general, I have found the non-fiction genre to be uninteresting,…
Despite sharing the same name, the “How to Train Your Dragon” films are almost nothing like the book series on which they are based. Both take place on the Island of Berk, following the adventures of a young Viking, Hiccup…
A deadly storm. Flying debris. One isolated, enterprising astronaut. Andy Weir’s “The Martian,” a 2011 science-fiction novel adapted into a film in 2015 by the illustrious Director Ridley Scott, jumps right into the action. In the novel, astronaut Mark Watney,…
