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Adam Burgess
Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is Charles Dickens’s last and unfinished novel. It was inspired, supposedly, by Dickens’s brush with death while riding aboard a train with his wife. The train derailed, and Dickens and his… Continue Reading “The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens”
Tricks is the separate but interwoven and common-themed stories of five average teenagers, between the ages of 15-18. Eden is a genuinely nice person, though not nearly as much of a repentant Christian as her Pentecostal-Priest father and sycophantic mother would want her to… Continue Reading “Tricks by Ellen Hopkins”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther is not so much a tale of love and romance, as it is a chronicle of mental health; specifically, it seems Goethe is tackling the idea of depression and even (though the term would not… Continue Reading “The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”
Today, I continue my short discussions of/reactions to Poe’s works. I’m still engaged with his complete short stories, and will be for a while. After finishing these, I’ll move on to his poetry. Each of these stories, like those in Poe 1, are categorized… Continue Reading “Reading Poe, Part 2: Gold-Bug, Ligeia, Maelstrom”
X-Men Siege (Mutant Empire #1) by Christopher Golden A few weeks ago, I was at Half-Price Books selling a big chunk of my library when, lo and behold, I stumbled across all three books in this Mutant Empire series. I’m absolutely upset with the 1990s… Continue Reading “X-Men, Astrophysics, and Hate”
Roof Beam Reader 