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Pride and Prejudice

February 8, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: The Bennet sisters are five young eligible bachelorettes.  Upon the arrival of a rich young gentleman at a neighboring estate, marriage plots (not that kind) are hatched – and an obstinate antagonism between two kindred spirits slowly warms into romance. The Review: So, after all this time… all these attempts… #Austen2013 gets off to an impressive start simply in that I finished this novel. Yes, that’s right.  I’ve tried – and failed – to read this novel […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Austen 2013, Classics, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Fiction, Jane Austen, Literature, Pride and Prejudice

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Oliver Twist

September 25, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: Poor orphan Oliver Twist is subjected to the most cruel of lives, growing up in a workhouse in Victorian England.  After a twist of fate sends him to London, he falls in with a group of thieves and ne’er-do-wells led by the Jew Fagin and Bill Sikes.  His life then sends him back and forth between respectability and these vagabonds until, in the end, all comes together quite nicely. The Review: I think I’m actually most ashamed to […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: charles dickens, Classics, Dickens 2012, Fiction, Literature, Oliver Twist

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Wuthering Heights

August 14, 2011 by Drew

The Short Version: The tragic tale of the Earnshaw, Linton, and Heathcliff families – loves unrequited and spurned, hatreds nurtured, lives destroyed… basically Jane Eyre without any likable characters. The Review: I picked up this book after all these years (another one that slipped through the 16 years of schooling…) because a girl told me that I was “a mix of Darcy and Heathcliff.”  When pressed to see what she meant, I was told that it was a dealbreaker that I hadn’t […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Classics, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Emily Brontë, Fiction, Literature, Wuthering Heights

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The Lost Books of the Odyssey

The Lost Books of the Odyssey

March 27, 2011 by Drew

The Short Version: Returning to the idea of the oral tradition that created the Greek myths we now find so engrained in our society, these “lost books” are apocryphal variations on the stories we think we know so well.  There are the predictable tales – from the cyclops’ point of view – but also more divergent tales.  Stranger tales.  Sadder tales.  Tales not of the Homer story but of the stories that spawned it. The Review: What must it’ve been […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: 5+, Classics, Fiction, Literature, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason

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