I read this book for the first time in school. I can't remember if it was for a class or for the reading quizzes we all had to take in middle and high school. All I really remembered was loving this book, although I can't really remember why. After rereading (well, listening) to it this year (2013) ...
My Antonia, Willa Cather, Reading a classic is a more civil, more genteel experience. Gone is the fear that on any page there will be unnecessary violent bloodshed, objectionable language, distasteful sexual innuendos, repulsive descriptions and convoluted plots, to name just a few. Also gone is the...
Oopsie do! I just finished reading this book and decided to “fact-check” on Wikipedia to find that I just read the final book of her O Pioneers and the Song of the Lark. But… it’s okay, completely different characters etc. Am just slightly OCD to have wanted to start from Numero Uno.This book is ...
I expected more, I guess; this being a classic, and all. I found Antonia to be a bit two-dimensional and unappealing other than the fact that she seemed to be so appealing to so many. The foundation of that attraction is not explained convincingly.It is an interesting picture of frontier life in the...
My Ántonia is a classic novel of life on the frontier. It follows the life of Jim Burden, and his spirited friend Ántonia, as they make lives for themselves. I rated the book three out of five stars because I found the plot very bland and uninteresting. It had no real story arc, and it read almost l...
I enjoyed it, but I didn't care too much for the narrator. The descriptions of the midwest really make this novel. It's a classic, so why not read it? No difficult language, simple dialogue - just good ol' fashioned writing that gets the job done without flair and pomp.
I have to admit to not knowing much about American Literature. I know lots about English Literature but the only real American Literature I've read is Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms and I didn't like it much. Fitzgerald and Hawthorne are strangers to me, as are Zane Grey, Henry James and Melville. ...
What do you have when you have a male protagonist who is rarely competitive, never aggressive, not jealous of another man being with the women he loves and is prone to flights of fancy about stage decorations? You have Jim. The only straight guy in the world who is completely passive about women, is...
okay, i'm done! there's not really a plot. i really liked the book -- i wasn't sure if crying by page fifteen was going to bear out, but i found i really like cather's writing, period. she accomplishes a lot in straight forward memoir as narrative, and i like the sense of nostalgia that permeates th...
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