I'm not going to give my typical review on this book. It's good but there is nothing I can say about it that hasn't already been said by others in the reviews. I certainly do not consider this a 5 star though. A five star book should be one that you will find yourself reading again and again. The Pe...
Whatever you do, don't read this when you're pregnant. I loved Steinbeck until I read this in my 5th month of pregnancy - got to the end of this book and ranted for a week at my husband about the evils of men who DARE to write about women and their children. Haven't touched a Steinbeck since. I've ...
This was a compulsory book for English during my final year of highschool. I absolutely abhor this book and end up taking an extra subject on English Literature on the same year. It was the years I had to stay in Terengganu's school and I remembered distinctly that half of the class have difficultie...
Christmas of 2004, and I start reading as many books from the approved BC Ministry of Education book list as I can ... preparing for my final Women's Studies course.
With details as stark as the landscape and morals nearly as plain, The Pearl fits into the fable-esque style of tales such as The Good Earth. I read this in school and then many years later as an adult, and I still really enjoy it. Something about the stubborn will of the main character appeals and ...
All of Steinbeck's "little" books: the Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, Tortilla Flats seem like they were written for High School or Middle School English class: short, simple, and easy to read. They're not all bad books, but not particularly good, Flats being the best. I don't know why they pick thes...
This was a bookclub read and a very small book one that can be read in one sitting, This is one of those books that when you read it you think ok that was a nice story and then when you discuss it you realise there is so much to this book, I enjoyed this story and I like the lessons that it conveys...
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