Category: 1001 Books

Review: Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Posted on May 21, 2012 by

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Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 17 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) Count Frollo, Quasimodo, and Esmeralda are quite possibly the most twisted, most bizarre, and most unexpected love-triangle in literary… Continue Reading “Review: Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo”

Category: 1001 Books, 2012 Challenges, 2012 Classics Challenge, 2012 TBR Challenge, Architecture, Art, Art History, Book Review, Classics, Classics Club, Fiction, Inquisition, Religion, Romanticism, Victor Hugo

Review: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Posted on February 25, 2012 by

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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 8  Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful. Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White is widely accepted to be one of the first –and best- mystery and sensation novels.  The… Continue Reading “Review: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins”

Category: 1001 Books, 2012 Challenges, 2012 Classics Challenge, 2012 TBR Challenge, Detective Novel, Epistolary, Mystery, Sensation Lit, Victorian, Wilkie Collins

Review: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Final Verdict: 3.50 out of 4.0 YTD: 06 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting and believable. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the third installment in the series and, unlike the first two installments –… Continue Reading “Review: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle”

Category: 1001 Books, 2012 TBR Challenge, Arthur Conan Doyle, Book Review, British Literature, Fiction, Mystery

Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 04  Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) The Handmaid’s Tale is a rather terrifying vision of an America wherein the government has fallen to religious (Christian) extremists,… Continue Reading “Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood”

Category: 1001 Books, 2012 Challenges, 2012 TBR Challenge, Book Review, Dystopia, Fiction, Literature, Margaret Atwood, Religion, Sociology

Review: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

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Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 1 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) “The greatest love story ever told.”  “The epic novel of our time.”  These are just two of the… Continue Reading “Review: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell”

Category: 1001 Books, 2012 Challenges, 2012 Classics Challenge, 2012 TBR Challenge, American Civil War, Antebellum, Book Review, Classics, Literature, Margaret Mitchell, Reconstruction

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