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Review: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 42 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting and believable. The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is considered to be (by its...
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Review: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 46 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting, believable, and impactful. Anne Tyler’s 1982 novel Dinner at the...
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Review: White Noise by Don DeLillo
White Noise by Don DeLillo Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 51 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) “This is the language of waves and...
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Review: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 54 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) Cannery Row is a unique stand-out...
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Thoughts: Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 5 Orlando is Virginia Woolf’s sixth major work and was written in a year, between To the Lighthouse and The Waves. It is an...
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Brief Thoughts: 3 Texts on Literary Theory
How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster YTD: 07 Goodreads Summary: What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower?...
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Thoughts: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 11 I first read Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in graduate school (2007?), as part of a 20th Century American Literature class. I...
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Thoughts: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Wolf Final Verdict: Perfection YTD: 22 I finished reading Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own two days ago, and I have been thinking about it ever since. I imagine that...
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Thoughts: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 24 A Streetcar Named Desire is my first experience with Tennessee Williams. Going into this work, I knew very little...
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The Beats of Summer: A Reading Event! (Sign-Up Post)
Welcome to the sign-up post for: The Beats of Summer: A Reading Event! Summertime is coming, and what better time than Summer to immerse ourselves in the works of the most rebellious, daring, and “hot”...
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Thoughts: Don Quixote, Part One by Miguel Cervantes
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Part One by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 40 Don Quixote is considered by many to be the first example of the...
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Thoughts: Don Quixote, Part Two by Miguel Cervantes
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Part Two by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 40 The Second Part of Don Quixote was published in 1615, exactly ten...
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Thoughts: Persuasion by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen Final Verdict: 3.75 of 4.0 YTD: 47 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) Persuasion is the story of Anne Elliot,...
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The Literary Giveaway Hop!
Hosted by Leeswammes Details: This hop is open to all types of bloggers, but the giveaway on each blog must be of literary value/merit. Anyone who visits the participating blogs can enter to win – and...
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Review: White Noise by Don DeLillo
White Noise by Don DeLillo Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 51 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) “This is the language of waves and...
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Review: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 46 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting, believable, and impactful. Anne Tyler’s 1982 novel Dinner at the...
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Review: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 41 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting, believable, and impactful. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is the story...
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Review: The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (#OthersLitLGBT)
The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 45 The Swimming-Pool Library is somehow both more and less than it would first appear. Its main character, William...
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Thoughts: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 11 I first read Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in graduate school (2007?), as part of a 20th Century American Literature class. I...
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Thoughts: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 24 A Streetcar Named Desire is my first experience with Tennessee Williams. Going into this work, I knew very little...
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