Annika At Wilderness Hotel: The Finnish Spies Review

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(More customer reviews)This story caught my interest because I was so fascinated with the charactors in the book. If I think about it, I am alot like Annika because we both like adventures, except of course I can't see peoples auras. I wish I could though.
All preteen girls should read this book because it caught my interest and will probably catch yours.

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This is the first in the series about a Swedish girl whoimmigrates to America in 1882. Annika lives at Wilderness Hotel by ahuge lake on the Minnesota/Canadian border, in a place namedSettlement. She is small and very dark, much unlike her tall blondparents. The people of Settlement stare at her sometimes, and thismakes her uneasy, but Annika isn't unduly concerned about this becauseshe is loved very much by her Swedish Pappa and Momma, and besides,she has many good friends. But Annika keeps her secrets. She hasspecial powers and tells no one about them. She experiencesforetelling . . . that is the knowing what is going to happen inadvance of it happening. And she sees what she calls the "colors" ofpeople . . . we know of this as auras. Annika enjoys her powers. Sheused them to her advantage when getting to know new people. Her powersbecome more potent as she pays closer attention to them, trusts them,and she often uses them to guide her. Annika's family has begun awonderful new life. But all is not well in America. The past knows noborders. It follows Annika's Pappa across the sea from Sweden toAmerica. Then it falls to the "Little Black Haired General" to saveher family and the people of Settlement from evil forces that woulddestroy them all.

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Hotel Honolulu: A Novel Review

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(More customer reviews)Few capture the essence of a setting as sensitively as author Paul Theroux. One remembers with pleasure "Kowloon Tong" (1997), a vivid word portrait of China. Once more he renders unforgettable scenes in his latest work, "Hotel Honolulu," set in Hawaii where, by the way, Mr. Theroux maintains a second home.
But this is not the sun dappled island paradise of which many dream. It is instead a rather seedy spot, a down-at-the-heels 80 room hotel on an unimposing byway several blocks from the beach in Waikiki. "The rooms were small, the elevator was narrow, the lobby was tiny, the bar was just a nook."
The owner, Buddy Hamstra, a man with protean appetites, bridled at calling his place small. It was, he said, "Yerpeen."
Resident manager for this haven is an unsuccessful writer who has no hotel experience, but a sharp eye for observing and facile tongue for relating the human dramas that unfold behind closed doors.
Readers will find themselves drawn to the off-beat, flawed characters who visit the hotel, and reminded that Mr. Theroux is not only a trenchant observer of humankind but one blessed with limitless imagination and a powerful sense of place.

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