Category: Classics
When I first bought Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, I was happy. It wasn’t a long book at all, I was in the middle of several other reading projects, …
Olivia Knight
July 26, 2016
Banned Books, Classics, E.L. James, Erotica, Fantasy, Horror, J.K. Rowling, Reading, Stephen King, Suspense/Thriller
If there’s one villain whom movie watchers and comic book lovers love to hate or hate to love, it’s the Joker. Completely resistant to psycho therapy, this monstrous maniac …
YouTube Channel: HISTORY From the Description: Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald was quintessentially American. Learn about his upbringing, “The Great Gatsby,” and his untimely death in this video. …
The single oddest piece of memorizing advice I’ve ever gotten came in eighth grade. We had to memorize Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky,” and my teacher recommended that we sit …
During the Vietnam War, soldiers and protesters found very little common ground. An unlikely area of agreement, though, was the shared fondness for Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. Today, Heller’s opus …
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Shakespeare and Company is one of two bookstores of the same name located in Paris, France. The store was originally founded by an American woman named Sylvia Beach in 1919. …
There are some books we never want to end, where we read the final page, close the back cover, keep hold of it a little longer (maybe stroke the …
Hello, fellow librophiles! We’ve never met. I’m a blogger, and you’re someone staring at a computer screen in Nova Scotia or Puyallup. But I bet I know something about …
Even with the new digital age upon us, we can all agree that traditional reading is still fundamental. In fact, there are so many hip and contemporary literary works …
In the original preface of Emily Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, her sister Charlotte Bronte wrote of the flawed hero within this dark, gothic tale: “Whether it is right or …
As any serious student of literature will tell you, unless your studies have ventured into the élite realm of Russian novelists, you cannot truly call yourself a reader. To …
“The Austen Project” – three little words which, if you’re of a certain age (ahem…) take you right back to a college seminar course. But, no, this is the …
The world is a mess. Even a little child can tell you that. Never in history has there been such a time of political, social and economic upheaval. People …
The name Hemingway rings the intellectual bells of all avid readers, whether you happen to be a fan of his work or not. His literary voice is one that …
https://youtu.be/Bkk3Ui6ainM YouTube Channel: George Pollen From the Description: Paul ‘scruffy’ Martin looks around the house of Adeline Virginia Woolf (25th January 1882 – 28th March 1941) who was an …
We all have memories of certain children’s stories that we read or were read to us as children. As you can imagine, stories by Dr. Seuss and J. K. Rowling pop up …
In the classic, well-known fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast, most of us would remember a beautiful princess falling in love with a terrifying beast, only to realize the …
Many readers have been bewitched by the eloquent words, headstrong ladies, romantic gentlemen, and complicated relationships that make up the six novels of Jane Austen. It is no wonder …
Have you ever imagined Othello played by Mr. T? Or Ryan Gosling as Dorian Gray? I bet you haven’t, but maybe it’s time you did. A UK-based publisher, Oldcastle …