Classics

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte

September 8, 2008

* Originally reviewed on 8/20/07 on another of my blogs. * I read Wuthering Heights last week. I hated it. Heinous, vile people doing heinous, vile things to each other. I couldn’t stand either Cathy or Heathcliff. So much for a great love story. And that’s all I have to say about that. Wuthering Heights, [...]

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Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery

July 1, 2008

I was prompted to reread Anne of Green Gables in June to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its first publication. In honor of the anniversary, Kate is hosting a group read and Mrs S is hosting a mini-challenge. This post contains *SPOILERS*, but hasn’t everyone read Anne of Green Gables? Anne Shirley is one of [...]

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Joy in the Morning, by P.G. Wodehouse

May 31, 2008

This was my first Wodehouse (apparently pronounced “Woodhouse”). Since the guy published over ninety books during his lifetime, I just randomly picked one off of my library’s shelves. I must say that I picked pretty well. Joy in the Morning is part of the Wooster and Jeeves saga. Jeeves, Wooster’s butler, has apparently become the [...]

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Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann

May 21, 2008

Knocking another one down for the novella challenge, I finished Death in Venice this evening. I’m not sure what exactly I was expecting when I choose this story, but it certainly wasn’t the tale of a respected older writer gentleman who falls in love with a fourteen year-old demigod boy and eventually dies of cholera [...]

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The Classics Challenge 2008

May 19, 2008

Since this challenge doesn’t start until July, Trish is having potential participants do the following meme to get to know one another: 1. My favorite classic is Pride and Prejudice. No question. 2. The classic I had the toughest time finishing is Emma. I still haven’t finished it. 3. I would recommend Cannery Row to [...]

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote

April 29, 2008

As part of the novella challenge, I read Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote this weekend. The novella is quite short, only 85 pages in the version I read. Still, unraveling the intricacies of Holly Golightly would take up many more pages. For a critical analysis go here. Holly is twenty years old. She has [...]

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Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck

April 2, 2008

“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky [...]

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The Golden Notebook, Part I

February 1, 2008

After finishing two books in the Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray (with the last book in the trilogy not available in my local Border’s), I decided that I would take a break from young adult fantasy and take on Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook. The description on the back of the new Harper Perennial [...]

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