Book Reviews & The Written Word
Without the Written Word, books wouldn't even exist.
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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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Edgar Allan Poe judged the greatest tragedy of existence to be humanity’s innate loneliness – our inescapable singularity. As close as one might feel to another, we largely live and die alone, sharing mere slivers of ourselves – our thoughts, fears, loves and hopes – with the outside world. Art, however, can sometimes transcend this [...]
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The other night I pulled my 800 page copy of Middlemarch out of my denim hobo bag and set it down on the table where those I was hanging out with promptly marveled at its heft. I told my friends that I had recently decided to read Middlemarch once a year and was in the [...]
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There have been ten English-language television and screen versions of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice alone in addition to movies and books clearly inspired by what is arguably Miss Austen’s most famous work (think the movie Bride and Prejudice and the novel Pride, Prejudice and Zombies). In a recent made-for-DVD movie called The 12 Men [...]
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If you’re approaching the holiday season this year with the dread of consuming copious amounts of butter that will lead the the inevitable New Year’s resolution to erase the holiday pounds, pick up Cooking Light 2008.
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