Welcome Home – 4/5 Stars If you haven’t yet, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of Lucia Berlin’s collected/selected stories “A Manual for Cleaning Ladies” that came out in 2015. This collection of stories is so good and does a thing that I am always amazed by, transcends the recommendations of readers I don’t trust. It was a hot thing for a little while and this is often a dangerous proposition for readers because I don’t really believe a lot of certain […]
Definitely not my wheelhouse, but thought-provoking nonetheless (BINGO finally!)
Brave New World fills the Not My Wheelhouse square, which means… BINGO! At last! I didn’t actually know that much about Brave New World when I decided to read it (well, listen to the audiobook). I think I expected it to be more about struggling to bring down a dystopian system rather than struggling (or not) within a dystopian system. I didn’t expect a satire, and I didn’t really expect the end to be so hopeless. In a way, the satire aspect makes it even less my wheelhouse than I […]
Two Dystopia, South America, a dog, and the South walk across a bridge
Brave New World – 4/5 Stars Another book I read in high school and college, but hadn’t re-read for 15 or so years. I was thinking about using this for a unit on dystopian literature in my English 12 Special Ed classes, but for a few reasons and a few conversations I don’t really want to have with students, I don’t think I will after all. For one, the sexuality in the book is a lot more forward than I originally remembered, and includes some […]
Brave New World – Review #10 for AamilTheCamel
The sequel to Nineteen Eighty-Four.