A perfect finish to an excellent series. I pretty much loved everything about it. No, I won’t say anything more than that in case there’s anybody lurking about who hasn’t read it yet, because I’m not into spoiling HP. At all. The only thing that keeps it from being a Superior is the epilogue, which [...]
By now, you should know, I’m a Virginia Woolf fangirl. I love the way she expresses things, her sense of humor, the beauty of her prose. Orlando is something of a departure, a very tongue-in-cheek imitation of a biography. As I said in the review of the film above, it’s about a 16th century nobleman [...]
To the Lighthouse wasn’t quite as accessible for me as Mrs. Dalloway, but it has plenty of Woolfian flashes of brilliance. The story concerns a family and various friends vacationing in the Hebrides; in the first half, the children want to go to visit the local lighthouse, but it seems weather will prevent them. In [...]
by Mary Shelley
et me tell you, if you are planning to watch the 1931 Boris Karloff film and use that as the basis of your book report instead of reading the book, you’re going to flunk. It’s almost completely different. The story details Dr. Frankenstein, a young man whose scientific interests lead him to try [...]
by Patricia Duncker
A Cambridge graduate student working on the novels of (fictional) French writer Paul Michel seeks out the author, who is now in a mental institution, first of all to question him about his literary relationship to (real) philosopher Michel Foucault, but eventually to try to get him out of the institution. I enjoyed [...]
