Classics and Beyond

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, ...

I started counting my books even before I started blogging. I counted them in my journal--I'd make a list in the back of all the books I...

A guy in my class said he didn't like this book because Gornick tried too hard to explain her experience, that there was too much medita...