Classics and Beyond

Hello again! So. I haven't posted here in nearly four months, as you may have noticed. Part of the reason for that, of course, is th...

Well, the year is winding down, and I'm starting to think about next year's reading, as many of you are. The past couple years, at...

Oh, Joan Didion. I just love you. Is there really more I can say? Okay, okay. I'll say more. But only because you really twisted my ...

Have you seen the article going around these days about how it's so important to finish books? What do you think of it? I had mixed f...

After reading the first chapter or two of Giant , I was sure I wouldn't like the rest of it. I couldn't tell exactly what was going ...

This is a book about a troubled teenage boy with a broken, dysfunctional family. So of course, from the beginning I was destined not to li...

I'm surprised that I liked this book. Normally I have trouble with children's books because I find them too simplistic or didactic, ...