Category: Classics

Review: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Posted on September 17, 2012 by

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 37 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) Nick Carraway, our “honest” narrator, is a small-town, Midwestern boy who once spent some time in New York… Continue Reading “Review: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald”

Category: 1001 Books, American Mythology, Classics, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fiction, Jazz Age, Literature, Modernism, Mythology

Review: A Lost Lady by Willa Cather

Posted on September 9, 2012 by

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Book Review Template Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 36 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) “If her image flashed into his mind, it came with a brightness of dark eyes, her pale triangular cheeks with long earrings,… Continue Reading “Review: A Lost Lady by Willa Cather”

Category: American Lit, Book Review, Classics, Literature, Realism, Regionalism, Willa Cather

Review: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Posted on September 2, 2012 by

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Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 33 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie is perhaps the perfect example of American Naturalism.  In it, a small-town Wisconsin girl, Carrie Meeber, moves… Continue Reading “Review: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser”

Category: 1001 Books, Book Review, Classics, Doctoral Work, Literature, Naturalism, Philosophy, Re-Reads, Realism, Theodore Dreiser

Review: The Watsons by Jane Austen (#AustenInAugustRBR)

Posted on August 15, 2012 by

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The Watsons by Jane Austen Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 30 There is something bizarre about my relationship with unfinished works by brilliant writers; for some reason, these works end up being my favorites.  My favorite Hemingway novel, for instance, is The… Continue Reading “Review: The Watsons by Jane Austen (#AustenInAugustRBR)”

Category: Austen in August, Book Review, British Literature, Classics, Fiction, Jane Austen, Literature, Unfinished Works

Review: Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Posted on August 13, 2012 by

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Lady Susan by Jane Austen Final Verdict: 3.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 29 Lady Susan is one of Austen’s early, short works.  It is written in epistolary form, as many of Austen’s early works were (even Sense & Sensibility was originally constructed as such,… Continue Reading “Review: Lady Susan by Jane Austen”

Category: Austen in August, Book Review, British Literature, Classics, Jane Austen, Literature

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