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Monthly Archives: November 2016
Book Review: Notes From a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoevsky
There seems to be a sort academic predisposition of hatred towards Pavear and Volokhonsky. It’s a strange thing, one I neither understand nor want to. People seem utterly baffled by a literal translation that forces one to endure turns of … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction, Review
Tagged academia, classics, dostoevsky, fyodor dostoevsky, history, intellectual awakening, pavear, prison, russian literature, Siberia, translation, volokhonsky
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Book Review: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles is a series of short stories and vignettes following humanity’s hypothetical exploration and eventual colonization of Mars. It’s an interesting concept written by one of the strongest sci-fi writer’s of the 20th century. Problem is, it’s less … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Review
Tagged aliens, allegory, american literature, Bradbury, classics, fiction, genocide, invasion, Mars, martians, Ray Bradbury, sci-fi, science fiction
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The Art of Asking
I pull into a gas station, the kind half run down, half inner city pit stop. A thin-haired man, mid-fifties, in a tan and oil stained working jacket locks eyes with me before I can even get the car in … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Non-fiction
Tagged beggars, cookies, Diabetes, empathy, homeless, humanity, liars, lies, Life, money, popcorn, Short Story, slice of life, story
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Book Review: The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth
It’s clever, this book. It’s also a good book. It’s clever, chatty, witty, funny, succinct, and unpretentious. It sets out to give names to all the rhetoric we never learned in schools. This book is a study of expression and … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction, Review
Tagged criticism, Grammar, Humanities, Language, linguistics, literary, Mark Forsyth, perfect, Phrases, Reference, The Elements of Eloquence, writing
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Book Review: The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
I don’t really have a roadmap when it comes to the books I read, it comes largely down to availability and perhaps more honestly, whimsy. The Man Who Fell to Earth is one of the wonderful gems that such a … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Review
Tagged alcoholism, aliens, american literature, classics, damn near perfect, fiction, humanity, literary fiction, sci-fi, science fiction, Tevis, the man who fell to earth, Walter Tevis
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Book Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
There was something about this book. I liked it. More than I feel like I should have. The words aren’t particularly well arranged, the references to 80s culture that stand like grand Corinthian pillars over the entire narrative don’t … Continue reading
Book Review: Watership Down by Richard Adams
There are certain things you aren’t supposed to do in literature. I had always figured mixing (a sort of ) realism with non-human characters was something of a no-no. Sure, you could have the fantastical and all too human blood-splattering … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction, Review
Tagged Aeneid, Animals, british literature, classics, fantasy, heroicism, literary fiction, Odyssey, Rabbits, Sexism, YA, young adult
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Book Review: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
I seem to have stumbled across a niche I didn’t realize existed. The genre is simple, or not, depending on your judgment of such things: charming prose exploring an overlapping space between magic and the real, the quintessential familiar and … Continue reading
A Land of Rum and Writing 