...w Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , and Bell Jar . I read most of these in school, except Bell Jar , which was required reading for a literature course in Freshman year of college. Bell Jar is too depressing as a summer book. As ...
... worked out how to write audience-pleasers. His audience then were the academics, the teachers, the … Continue reading → … because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. Onc...
... I hadn’t known I wanted.” I want to give this book a hug and skip on the sidewalk with it, holding … Continue reading → “I have gone to [bookshops] for years, always finding the one book I wanted – and then three more I...
...r’s love. When a mom loves her child, she will go above and beyond to make sure they feel that devotion. After reading my mom’s last loving comment, I got to thinking…Why shouldn’t our writing get a mother’s love? After ...
...creetly’ that he would not be heartbroken if the goldfish snuffed it during their fortnight away. I … Continue reading → Despite my non-pet leanings we once pet-sat a goldfish for some neighbours. The father (of the girl...
...oney, or are they catering to a need for classic stories? Joan Aiken’s Felix trilogy is definitely the kind of reading material you can never have enough of. … Continue reading → Should publishers keep re-issuing old boo...
...h; in that very day his thoughts perish. Psalm 146, a chorister’s favourite (it has just ten verses … Continue reading → Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth fo...
...Reading has a reputation for being an isolated activity. We often think of people in their pajamas or bathrobe, sunk into a massive armchair in front of a roaring fire, with a mug of hot cocoa in one hand and a page-turn...
.... I have to say, I am a bit disappointed. Maybe it isn’t all Keene’s fault – I told myself I was going to stop reading horror/sci-fi so maybe this book is a victim of the dying embers of interest in the genre. I am not s...
... — nay, grotesquely inflated — part of the show. Can it be coincidence that a similar manifestation … Continue reading → Malcolm spent yesterday afternoon at the British Museum form the Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition...
