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30 Day Book Challenge: Day Nineteen
Book that turned you on: Atonement – Ian McEwan Who thought a novel so British could be so nasty. Well, to be fair, there’s only a few sexy scenes, one of which involves raping a minor…However, the one...
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30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty
Book you’ve read the most number of times: The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien Like Robinson Crusoe, Oliver Twist, Moby Dick, Dracula, and a select few others, The Hobbit is the kind of story that we have...
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30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-one
Favorite picture book from childhood: Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak Fuck Curious George, fuck the Bernstein Bears, fuck Where’s Waldo, fuck all that shit; I’m all about them monsters,...
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30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-two
Book you plan to read next: One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez Not really much I can say about a book I haven’t read (although, an honors degree in English can really help at...
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30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-three
Book you tell people you’ve read, but haven’t (or haven’t actually finished): Moby-Dick – Herman Melville Oh the shame! In my previous entry, I alluded to the fact that English students are adept at...
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30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-four
Book that contains your favorite scene: The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (also, my favorite cover. I actually have a t-shirt version. Judge me, snobs.) The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest...
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30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-five
Favorite book you read in school – Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare While it isn’t my favorite Shakespeare play by a mile, Romeo and Juliet was the first thing I read by the Bard, and is obviously...
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Skinny Love: Thoughts on The Hunger Games
Ever since the Harry Potter film series began, it seems like Hollywood is devouring one young adult book title after another. As I’ve said in other posts, I am indeed a fan of Harry Potter; however,...
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Blood and Thunder: some thougths on Moby-Dick
Back when I was doing the 30 Day Book Challenge (which I didn’t complete as I got tired with it and wasn’t enthusiastic about the last few questions), I included Moby-Dick as the book you tell people...
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Fiesta! thoughts on The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises is a difficult book to discuss without giving up major plot details, therefore I’m not going to bother throwing up spoiler alerts. That said, the plot isn’t really what makes this...
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When to Bail on Books
I recently joined a book club. The first book I was supposed to read was Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. I only had about a week and half to read it, which isn’t a lot of time considering it’s almost 700...
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Reading on the Fringe
I’ve noticed my book cases are dominated by dead white men. Going a step further, I’d say dead, heterosexual, Anglo-Saxon men. This shouldn’t come as a shock seeing how the publishing industry has been...
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Literary Grudge Match: Hemingway v. Fitzgerald
I’ve been kicking around this idea of a literary “grudge match.” I take two contemporaries – ideally with a bitchy history – and do an appraisal of sorts. This likely won’t be the most rigorous or...
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Targaryen Entitlement: A Case Study for Milennials
The word “entitlement” gets thrown around a lot these days. It seems like every week there’s another lazy, throw-away op-ed written by another boomer who either is up against a deadline or craves...
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If You’re so Smart Why Ain’t You Rich?: Higher education and innovation
The other day, career politician and Republican nominee long shot Marco Rubio said that the world needed more welders, less philosophers.” Plato was smart and all but he probably should’ve shut up and...
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Literary Grudge Match: Ayn Rand vs. JK Rowling
I rarely judge people for their literary tastes. Spending time reading words on a page accesses parts of your brain that are woefully underdeveloped in today’s society. I won’t pull a Jonathan Franzen...
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American Psycho: A Survivalist Reading Guide for the Trump Era
2016 was the year people started using the word “narrative” to critique certain trains of the thought in the discourse, but yet seemed totally incapable of realizing they were perpetuating it. My...
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