The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
I haven’t read Tom Sawyer in about 30 years, and the biggest surprise is that I think the book only uses the “N-word” one time, and it’s beyond unnecessary in the novel. Though to the credit of Mark Twain’s penchant for casual bigotry, there’s plenty of other slurs. So I read this as a kid, and I can’t swear to why anybody (I read it in school) thought it was a good idea. The irony is lost on kids, and while it’s actively hilarious — […]
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer
No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase
Time and Tide by Frank Conroy
Nature Poem by Tommy Pico
A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow
Inside Stories by Ben H Winters
The Dark Web by Geoff White
Latin History for Morons by John Leguizamo
The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn
Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgard
This Land is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich
Dr Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
Texts from Jane Eyre by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain
Here’s a whole bunch of kind of (Sorry) short reviews for short books! Pandemic reading!!! The Woman in Black – 3/5 Stars I still think it remains a little silly that this movie had Daniel Radcliffe in it. He was too fresh off of Harry Potter and hadn’t yet made his real transition into adult movies. I think his show “The Young Doctor’s Notebook” was a more successful vehicle for him as it placed him in a transitional role. Anyway, I mention all […]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I am (mostly) unashamed to admit that my first encounter with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, or any of Mark Twain’s books, were not in school, but on my own accord after watching Disney’s 1995 “Tom and Huck.” I was twelve, smitten with the carefree, super hot (at least I thought so at the time) characters going on crazy adventures, and after the movie was over, I wanted more. I read Tom Sawyer first and loved it since the movie follows it fairly closely. I started Huckleberry […]
Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown
Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon
Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibrain
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky
Start Now! by Chelsea Clinton
Winterfair Gifts – 3/5 Stars This is a reread from a few years ago when I read all of the Miles Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold. I also started rereading them last year and got through about half before I stopped short, but I bet this will get me started started again. This book also starts out or sets of to tell the story through an alternate perspective from the other books. So far we’ve had Miles being the lead protagonist in the most […]
I did not like this. It’s not even the material, but the production that I was not on board for. After listening to the masterful rendition of Emma and weird but well put-together I’m From the Sun, I was expecting good quality from an Audible Original. It immediately said “podcast” to me, which is fine if you want a podcast, but I was expecting a book. And this is a book, or at least based on one. The production quality just wasn’t there. There are […]
Who Was Mark Twain? He was an author, adventurer, tall-tale maker and the subject of this book by April Jones Prince. There are several different people in the Who Was/Who Is series. I read Mark Twain and Who Was Joan of Arc by Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso last night. While each has its own author(s) each are illustrated by a different artist (John O’Brien and Andrew Thomson respectively). They are a non-fiction story about their subject. You can have everyone from Joan of Arc […]
