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 [...]
by Ian McEwan
Yes, I read this in anticipation of the upcoming film version. I was actually going to wait until after I’d seen the film, but a friend warned me that a major part of the book is the way it’s told, and knowing the plot beforehand would ruin some of that. Folks, SHE WAS [...]
Okay, I don’t even know what made this book so good, but it was. I think having had the Harlem Renaissance class last year helped, since it’s all from the perspective of a much-abused black woman, from the age of fourteen on. It’s epistolary, which is interesting in and of itself; epistolary novels were really [...]
Overall, the book had a lot of good things in it, but it was top-heavy.
