I'd like to believe that all my favourite funny things - Python, KITH, Mr. Show, and numerous others - transcend time and place, and are objectively funny. I know that's not true, as tons of people don't like Python, for example. But I'd like to believe. And I'd like to believe it about all great hu...
This is a book of character and language, of family and small towns, and if those are the sorts of things you like to read about, this is something you may want to look into. However, if you want a strong and engaging plot or a bit of action, you're likely going to find some difficulty with this one...
Another New Review! THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER http://tinyurl.com/p9ualay Such a beautiful title, beautiful writing, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1973...and so much to say about getting older, losing folks you love. A wonderful book I'm glad I read.
It's Day 9 of the Doubleday UK meme...a novel with the most irritating character of all time...well, now. http://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2014/07/book-day-meme-9-character-you-love-to.html I do so hate Dabney Fairchild. She's a cut-rate Scarlett O'Hara. Almost as much fun to hate as Narcissa...
I love Southern American writing. It's almost always highly place-centered, meaning it could only take place in that one spot; this is very appealing to me. I like being FROM the South, and i *adore* not having to live there. I can get my fix in books! At my blog http://tinyurl.com/mlqkhpp I prais...
The title is a misnomer. Not that there aren't some wonderful stories here, but they were never really chosen because they're the best American short stories of the 20th century. Rather, these are Updike's 56 picks out of the 2,000 stories originally chosen in the 84 volumes of a yearly anthology pu...
When I sat down to continue "catching up" on my reviews, I wasn't sure what was going to be the earliest one I hadn't reviewed yet, but I was sure, damn it, that it wasn't 'To the Lighthouse'. How the hell am I gonna review 'To the Lighthouse'?I still haven't grasped the concept of reading Woolf slo...
I knew absolutely nothing about Eudora Welty when I picked up this book. I quite enjoyed her simple retelling of her past, and how she realized she wanted to be a writer. A quick, interesting read.
Rating: 4.25* of fiveThe Book Description: In her now-famous introduction to this first collection by a then-unknown young writer from Mississippi named Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter wrote that "there is even in the smallest story a sense of power in reserve which makes me believe firmly that,...
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