-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Adam Burgess
This is a hard novel to review – so much happens, and so little happens. Waugh tackles Catholicism, dogma and paradigms, faith in general. He tackles homosexuality, social stigma, boyishness, growth, and responsibility. Divorce, society, nobility, riches, and innocence. Alcoholism, psychosis, war, nationalism, loss,… Continue Reading “Review: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh”
Sessums’ memoir is beautifully – and painfully- honest. He describes his experiences as an effeminate homosexual boy, youth, and teenager in rural Mississippi, in a time and place where it was more popular to applaud the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King Jr.… Continue Reading “Review: Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums”
Victor Hugo’s achievement with Les Miserables is in stunning and breath-taking. Not only is the story superb, realistic, and moving, but it is complemented by aspects of French philosophy, history, and politics. When beginning this novel, I had no idea that I would be exposed… Continue Reading “Review: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo”
Hemingway is hit or miss, for me. I fell in love with A Farewell to Arms. I found The Old Man and the Sea a bit sluggish (though, admittedly, this is the point). I have thoroughly enjoyed some of the short stories, and wondered… Continue Reading “Review: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway”
“It wasn’t until after the first book (50 or so pages) of A Tale of Two Cities that I finally began to sink into the story and to appreciate what Dickens was developing. While there wasn’t as much opposition between London and Paris as… Continue Reading “Review: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens”
Roof Beam Reader 