About stories of all kinds
It has come round again! What is it, you may ask? The Classics Club is a voluntary commitment to read 50 classics of your choice in 5 years from the time you join. Every so often, the Classics Club site hosts a "spin" to motivate participants to keep at their list, and maybe relieve some… Continue reading Classics Club Spin #41
By all accounts, Dostoevsky wrote The Gambler on a deadline, ironically, to pay gambling debts. No better way to prove invention's parentage is necessity. I recently missed another Classics Club spin, only to realise I still haven't performed the function of reviewing my last Classics Club read for Spin #39. Hence the necessity of my… Continue reading Rye, Rabble, and Roulette: The Gambler Review
It has come round again! What is it, you may ask? The Classics Club is a voluntary commitment to read 50 classics of your choice in 5 years from the time you join. Every so often, the Classics Club site hosts a "spin" to motivate participants to keep at their list, and maybe relieve some… Continue reading Classics Club Spin #39
I don't think there is anyone quite like H.G. Wells, who can so convincingly write about fantastical impossibilities in a manner that is not only credulous but also firmly rooted in a comprehensive grasp of known science, society, and human nature. Maybe Jules Verne comes close but seems at times out of touch with human… Continue reading Strange and Hideous Dreams: The War of the Worlds Review
As though I don't have enough books to read between my summer for-fun reads and my genre-exploring reads to find comparable books for my work in progress, I'm going to take a stab at participating in this spin. At the very least, it will keep me motivated to knock another one off the list. Logic… Continue reading Classics Club Spin #38
The Story Through the catalyst of the Shelbys, a Kentucky family, falling into debt, the fate of their slaves changes forever. At the prospect of her young son being sold away from her, Eliza takes him and runs for Canada without fully understanding the distance or difficulties involved, trusting that her husband will come after… Continue reading Other People’s Glass Houses: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Review
Perhaps it is ill-advised for me to participate in this spin, as I have several lengthy books on the go and several absorbing life changes on the go as well. On the bright side, I filed my taxes today so maybe I'm not as behind in life as I feel I am. We take the… Continue reading Classics Club Spin #37
A well-known novel of the American south, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a challenging look at the history of race-relations and the process of a child coming to terms with another side of her familiar, safe community of Maycomb. Scout, her older brother Jem, and their friend Dill play around at constructing a… Continue reading One-Shot Finch: To Kill a Mockingbird
In my absence from the blog for the better part of three months, I missed the last Classics Club Spin (#35) and don't want to let another one go by without participating. I have worked through a few titles on my list in the meantime and their reviews are on the docket... if I can… Continue reading Classics Club Spin #36
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