By looking around on the web, I found out that she’s an Asian-American woman (“Yes, my name really IS Booki ,” she tells us) who had originally intended to become a pharmacist—or maybe an elephant trainer, lol—but she kept coming back to books. Her circuitous career path seems...
Gain a complete understanding of “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald from Blinkist. The “The Great Gatsby” book summary will give you access to a synopsis of key ideas, a short story, and an audio summary.
By presentingyoung femalereaders with positive examples of fictional wartime girls readyto“do their bit”on behalf of their respective nations, this literature served asan instrument in the“mobilizationofmorale”(Chickering 2004,46). In thesebooks, for example, Germangirls“eagerlytake up their ...
I tend to go through phases of getting really into someone, becoming completely obsessed and reading their books one after the other. The first author that comes to mind is China Miéville, whose novelPerdido Street Stationblew me away a few years ago. I’ve since read all his books – th...
Banned Books, TV Tropes, and Other Ways to Trick Teen Boys Into Reading Great LiteratureKathy Ceceri
literature, sharing their own work or the work of someone that’s inspired or influenced them in some way. The event would be free, they decided, andheld in one of the area’s most wonderful spaces,and all of it would be done to bring attention to the needs ofa local women’s shelter...
beast. Facedwithapureblooded book, a critic at least knows where he's at: the animal is subject to the broad commands of literature. Non-books are even less of a problem; it's merely a matter of determining whether, in the coarse values of the marketplace. the reader is given enough ...
It preceded by just two years the book that many consider to be her masterpiece, The Years, so you could say these two books together represent her second golden age, the first being the one in which she wrote A Man's Place and A Woman's Story. Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón...
I know, I know, but honestly, this book, which is frequently taught in American schools as an example of early feminist literature, isstillkind of edgy—more than 120 years later, and it’s still taboo for a woman to put herself and her own desires above her children. Whom among us ...
Literature, etc. Matthew Parsons:Omnireviewer/Omnibus— Some things are so self-explanatory that you can review them just by describing what they are. “A prog rock album with only one 44-minute long song,” for example. Or, “a graphic novel that intertwines a gay coming-of-age memoir...