Book Reviews & The Written Word
Without the Written Word, books wouldn't even exist.
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Whenever I’m on the fence about buying a book, I turn to page 1 and read its opening line. Considering the amount of time authors spend obsessing over the first words of their tome, you’d think all openings would be amazing. And yet, they’re not. Constructing an original, provocative opening sentence is eons harder than [...]
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Sinister villains often make good books – after all, it is frequently in the defeat of such adversaries that heroes prove heroic. For this reason, one could make a Top 10 Heroes List that closely mirrors that of the villains – and wind up including Pip, Hamlet, Charles Darnay and Uncle Tom among others. A [...]
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Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is a refreshing and daring taste of 19th century literature. Particularly since it was written by a woman, exploring ideas and feelings that of the time, that were not permissible behavior. In a lot of ways, it’s a classic How Stella Got Her Groove Back, only with a less than happy [...]
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It’s a monster of read if you’re not up to the classic challenge that it can be, but is overall a pretty interesting story. The movie of the same title starring Reese Witherspoon in 2004, while beautiful in costumes, cast and sets, falls a bit short of the literary tale. Of course almost all movies [...]
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Once in awhile we have to do a throwback to a novel not of this century. Yes, we have to. But that’s OK because this one is about one of my all time favorites: Rebecca by Daphne Du Marurier (1938). It is the only book I have ever stayed up all night to finish just [...]
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