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Five Classic Novels Every Young Woman Should Read (and Why) 2 Jul 2013 | 01:31 pm
This list was inspired by a good friend of mine who complained that every list she saw of “novels every young woman should read” was full of children’s books and trash. Then she asked what would be on...
Murphy by Samuel Beckett 19 Jun 2013 | 02:35 pm
Well I was considering not writing about this novel, but then the DP came up and “write about the most recent book you’ve read” is kind of a perfect prompt. Who am I to resist? The absolute worst book...
St. Mawr by D. H. Lawrence 13 Jun 2013 | 02:47 pm
A note to begin: the Wikipedia entry for D. H. Lawrence’s 1925 St. Mawr is kind of pathetically short. Remind me to do something about that, won’t you? So this story caused a rumble in my class when i...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 30 May 2013 | 02:35 pm
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? More like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young BLAND, burn! Okay, really though, it’s been a long time since I really hated a novel, especially one that’s in th...
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 24 May 2013 | 03:29 pm
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915) is the story of an affair between two couples that ends quite badly. That is the shortest possible summary I can give to the novel, but it’s much more compli...
“An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” by Chinua Achebe 20 May 2013 | 03:25 pm
Remember my Heart of Darkness post from a few days back? Well in it I mentioned an article, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,” by Chinua Achebe (available online) and I just f...
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 16 May 2013 | 01:58 pm
I just finished re-reading Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) for my Summer class on the British Modern period. I believe it may have been the first time I read it since High School, certainly s...
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West 11 May 2013 | 02:36 pm
Trying to get a tiny bit ahead on the reading for the Summer class I’ll be starting Monday (which I’m very excited about by the way) I read Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier over the last few d...
Moby Dick, or, The Card Game by King Post 3 May 2013 | 02:24 pm
You already know that I love Herman Melville and you probably already know that I love Kickstarter so when I was sent this project yesterday I practically screamed “Take my money!” at the screen. It’s...
The Little Girl and the Starving Time 2 May 2013 | 04:19 pm
I just finished working with The Female American, whose narrator claims to have a grandfather from Jamestown, so I have Jamestown on the mind. Then yesterday this story popped up about facial reconstr...
