Category: Fiction

Review: Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Posted on July 10, 2010 by

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Final Verdict: 3.25 out of 4.0 Plot/Story (3 of 4): “3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first in the Harry Potter septology by J.K. Rowling. While the novel is… Continue Reading “Review: Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling”

Category: Book Review, Fantasy, Fiction, Giveaway, Giveaway Hop, Giveaways, J.K. Rowling, Monthly Review, Young Adult

Review: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Posted on June 26, 2010 by

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Summary: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is a resounding cry for help for the working class. Willy Loman, the play’s main character, is a traveling salesman, always on the road and so far removed from his family (physically & emotionally) that he is… Continue Reading “Review: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller”

Category: Arthur Miller, Book Review, Classics, Drama, Fiction

Review: The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

Posted on June 25, 2010 by

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Summary: As New York Times columnist Ben Brantley said of McDonagh’s work here: “comedies don’t come any blacker than ‘The Pillowman.’” The vast majority of the play is set in a police station interrogation room, where a young man is being tortured into admitting… Continue Reading “Review: The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh”

Category: Drama, Fiction, Martin McDonagh, metafiction

Review: Watership Down by Richard Adams

Posted on June 21, 2010 by

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Summary: Watership Down is like a psychic-Rabbit equivalent of The Grapes of Wrath, except Richard Adams is not quite the writer that John Steinbeck is. At the start, a small group of rabbits from a relatively peaceful, advantageous warren leave their home at the… Continue Reading “Review: Watership Down by Richard Adams”

Category: 2010 TBR, Animals, Book Review, Fiction, Nature, Richard Adams

Review: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Posted on June 10, 2010 by

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Summary: William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is an exploration of family, society, and mortality.  The Bundren family, led by their bumbling but ultimately calculating father, travels by horse and buggy from their small farm into the city of Jefferson, Alabama to bury their… Continue Reading “Review: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner”

Category: Book Review, Fiction, William Faulkner

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