Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio Original publication date: 1919 Rpt. New York: Random House, 1947 Sherwood Anderson’s masterpiece, Winesburg, Ohio, is a collection of 23 interrelated sketches—Anderson calls them “tales”—that portray life in a Midwestern town in the early years of the twentieth century. The unifying thread throughout is the coming-of-age story of George Willard, an […]
Review: “Winesburg, Ohio” by Sherwood Anderson Read More »
Montgomery, Lucy Maud. Anne of Green Gables Original publication date: 1908 Like most young girl characters who appear in books written for girls, Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables functions for readers as a model of how to be a successful girl. These books communicate and reinforce to children the beliefs and behaviors that
On Rereading “Anne of Green Gables” Read More »
Hawkins, Paula. The Girl on the Train New York: Penguin Group, 2015 ISBN 978–1–59463–366–9 Rachel rides the same train every day on her commute to and from London, right past the street where she and her husband used to live. She’s still reeling with despair over the failure of her marriage two years earlier. Looking
Review: “The Girl on the Train,” Paula Hawkins Read More »
Related Post: CLASSICS CLUB SPIN #8 Yates, Richard. Revolutionary Road Original publication date: 1961 Rpt. Random House, 2008 eISBN 978–0–307–45627–4 This novel is most often described as an anti-suburban tract, a condemnation of the life of conformity and veiled unhappiness that flourished in the U.S. after World War II. And it is that. But it’s
Classics Club Spin #8: “Revolutionary Road” Read More »
Kalish, Mildred Armstrong. Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression Bantam Books, 2007 Some time around 1930, when the author was “little more than five years old” (p. 6), she, her mother, her baby sister, and her two brothers went to live with her mother’s parents in
“Little Heathens” by Mildred A. Kalish Read More »
Related Post: Introduction to Life Stories Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel by S. J. Watson HarperCollins, 2011 Kindle Edition A woman awakens, wonders where she is, rolls over—and is shocked to see a middle-aged man wearing a wedding ring and with hairs on his back sleeping next to her. She stumbles
“Before I Go to Sleep,” S.J. Watson: We Are What We Remember Read More »
Book review: “The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing,” by Ewan Clayton Anyone who loves books will be interested in this book, which tells the story of typography: Writing matters, says Ewan Clayton, calligrapher, former monk, design and media professor and visual consultant to Xerox in Palo Alto, Calif., the folks who made the first
In honor of Truman Capote‘s birthday, today’s featured review is In Cold Blood, the book that changed writing forever.
Happy Birthday, Truman Capote Read More »
Happy birthday, Alice Sebold! In honor of the day, here’s a review of her famous novel, The Lovely Bones.
Featured Review: “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold Read More »
In honor of Frank McCourt’s birthday, today’s featured review is Angela’s Ashes.
Featured Review: “Angela’s Ashes” Read More »
