The James Logan Courier

By Yari Nieves-Rivera, Courier Book Editor


The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith was a really great book to read in my spare time, considering that it was everything that I wasn’t expecting. I picked it up because John Green, my favorite author, suggested it. Oddly enough, it has become one of my favorite books to read. It’s new, and a great read for teenagers.

It’s set in an airport, in the span of one day. Hadley Sullivan is a seventeen year old girl on her way to her father’s wedding, in London. Considering that her mother and father are divorced, she’s forced to go by herself. It was supposed to be a pretty normal flight across the country, until she misses her flight. At first, she thinks of it as a sign of good luck, and fate telling her to not go to the wedding. Still, she re-schedules the flight so that she can get to the wedding just on time.

Then, she has to go to the bathroom. When people don’t want to watch her suitcases for her, she decides to take a bunch of her stuff with her. That’s when Oliver walks into her life, a British gentleman going to Yale.

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By David L. Ulin
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

I've long admired Toni Morrison as a moral visionary, but her fiction, not so much. Of her nine novels, three — "Song of Solomon" (1977), "Beloved" (1987) and 2008's "A Mercy" — are masterpieces, yet the others, particularly the post-Nobel books "Paradise" (1997) and "Love" (2003) can be so stylized as to veer dangerously close to self-parody. Anyone who's read her in any depth may understand what I'm referring to: those stentorian rhythms, the biblical cadences, the characters who function more as archetypes than flesh-and-blood.

I say this not to minimize her achievements — three masterpieces in a lifetime are three more than most authors produce. Still, more often than not, her stature (the most recent American Nobel literature laureate, she was named last week as one of 13 recipients of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom) prevents us from seeing her as a writer, which is to say as fallible, prone as all writers are to the excitations and limitations of, in Faulkner's phrase, her "own little postage stamp of native soil."

From Wikipedia:
Henry John Kaiser (May 9, 1882 – August 24, 1967) was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. He established the Kaiser Shipyard which built Liberty ships during World War II, after which he formed Kaiser Aluminum and Kaiser Steel. Kaiser organized Kaiser Permanente health care for his workers and their families. He led Kaiser-Frazer followed by Kaiser Motors, automobile companies known for the safety of their designs. Kaiser was involved in large construction projects such as civic centers and dams, and invested in real estate. With his acquired wealth, he initiated the Kaiser Family Foundation, a charitable organization.

Visit the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation website.