Found the book thanks to an old Harriet Gilbert's podcast. Isn't she great? I've found so many books from her BBC shows, either A Good Read or World Book Club. Love her voice and how she digs up interesting points from a book, writer or her guests. She always managed to bring up something I've not n...
FIVE STARS!!!!Found the book thanks to an old Harriet Gilbert's podcast. Isn't she great? I've found so many books from her BBC shows, either A Good Read or World Book Club. Love her voice and how she digs up interesting points from a book, writer or her guests. She always managed to bring up someth...
Ever since I read This Boy's Life I was dying to know what had happened to Jack/Toby, more than just the wrap up we got at the end of the book, and I also wanted to read more of Tobias Wolff. And although Old School is described as a novel, not a memoir, I can still hear the same voice of Jack/Toby ...
Want to read something funny and literate? Read this memoir.There are few books that provide this much hilarity, wisdom and grace.Old School, though categorized as a novel, is a thinly veiled memoir of Tobias Wolff’s own experience as a scholarship boy in an elite prep school. The action largely cen...
A book about writing and writers for writers. Anyone who writes or even contemplated the idea of being a writer will identify with the protagonist of this brief but moving novel. The unnamed narrator is a not-so-privileged boy in a private and privileged boys' school. He attempts to find his identit...
OLD SCHOOL is written in the form of a fictionalized memoir of a student at an elite, circa 1960s, prep school full of "book-drunk" boys. Through a series of student writing competitions to win the prize of a private audience with a well know author, the reader of this book is treated to a profile ...
I listened to this book on CD during a road trip with my parents, and although I slept through a few parts, what I heard I strongly disliked. Although it's a coming of age story, I can only bear to watch a main character make so many mistakes in one novel.
A review dedicated to and inspired by my friend Eh!, who reads things backwards.This book is way literary meta. It’s so meta that there are prereq reading requirements for an optimal experience. Everyone knows Robert Frost, right? So, I’m not putting him on the list. But, I require you to read A...
Once upon a time there was a magical land called Readerville, filled with people who loved to read, and could natter on about books and anything vaguely bookish indefinitely. And back then in that wonderous land, I no doubt had many clever and insightful things to say about Old School. But all of ...
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