"Go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog"There is no doubt. I am a Flannery O’ Connor junkie. I can’t think of anything she’s written I haven’t loved. Even her letters and essays ring true. She is, to some degree, a product of her environment, and her use of certain words can grate on ...
Dark, Dark stories filled with petty, vindictive, ugly, intolerant little people. O'Connor is among the best at letting you into someone's head. The small snarky comment you have in your head when your having a bad day. That small sense of superiority you briefly feel when meeting someone less fortu...
This lovely collection of sentimental stories is just the thing for a rainy Sunday when you want to curl up on the couch and read your blues away. Just try to read the title story, in which a beloved mother learns she has something surprising in common with a woman of color, without feeling your sp...
In the The Iliad, Aeneas is saved by the gods to continue the Trojan line after Troy’s fated fall to the Greeks. Virgil’s Aeneid is Aeneas' story from Troy to Italy where he fulfills his destined role as founder of what will become the Roman Empire. It’s a Homeric imitation though it is written a...
This is a book of short stories written my Flannery O'Connor shortly before she died. Since it is the first thing that I have read by her, I don't know if that colored her tone in this book, or if she always writes with the same voice, but I have to say I did not enjoy it. Unlike Virginia Woolf or...
It might be because I am a history nerd, more specifically an ancient history nerd, who loves classic literature and epic tales but this is one of my all-time favorite books. I remember it was assigned to me for the project of the year when I was taking a college literature course while I was in hig...
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