Book Reviews & The Written Word
Without the Written Word, books wouldn't even exist.
From the category archives:
Charlotte spins her web, Wilbur shows up the other pigs at the County Fair, and young readers rejoice. They don’t even seem to care that animals can’t talk. Why do kids get to have all the fun? After spending week after week writing online book reviews on stories about normal people that speak to other [...]
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You might remember that I received Ms Batuman’s book as a Christmas gift, a gift that I had hoped would spur me to actually read a Russian novels. It was up to her: could she convince me to actually read past the opening 18 pages of Anna Karenina, figure out which Alexi is which, and [...]
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I’ve mentioned him before. And I am sure I’ll mention him again. How couldn’t I? He is one of the most influential reasons I started (and kept on) reading as a child. Brian Jacques died on February 5, 2011 of a sudden heart attack. I haven’t read any of the Redwall series since 1998′s Marlfox, [...]
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There is something special about hearing a piece of writing exactly the way the author intended it to sound. That is not to say that all Englishmen sound the same (even though, admit it, they kind of do), but Ralph Fienne’s renditions of Rudyard Kipling’s most famous stories and tales add whatever the British version [...]
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