Becky Sharp is the consummate social climber, willing to do anything and use anyone in her path as she works her way up from Bohemian painter’s daughter to the inner circle of George IV’s court.
There was not a single thing I liked about this book, not its characters, not its story, not its technique.
by Cormac McCarthy
One of my best friends is doing her dissertation on McCarthy, and I’ve been promising her for a year that I’d read something by him. I debated making it No Country for Old Men on account of the Coen brothers film version coming out, like, this week, but my friend warned me that [...]
by Ellen Douglas
Hands down my favorite book of the semester so far, and likely to remain so. I can’t decide if I’m just incredibly lucky that I picked this one to write about for my short paper, or if I like it so much at least partially because writing about it made me read it [...]
by Anne Tyler
Git yer disfunctional families, right here. The mother is controlling, the father leaves when the kids are little, the oldest son is mean and brusque, the daughter is a commitmentphobe, and the younger son is just a little slow (and actually, their interpersonal relationships are even worse than that suggests). Lots of things [...]
