I’m an academic aspiring for a tenure-track job, so I’ve done a lot of reading about the subject. A LOT. The Chronicle of Higher Education has a lot of doomy things to say about academia in general, as does almost every other internet site. And for good reason. The adjunctification of the academic job market in the humanities has been slowly unveiled to reveal a horrific system of exploitation that is eliminating faculty jobs and relying on highly educated adjuncts for a fraction of worthy […]
Well. I read this.
I’m at a bit of a loss with this review, guys. Initially, I wrote an incredibly scathing review of this book and then decided that getting emotional over this book is maybe not such a great idea on the internet. I mean, it’s kind of mean to rag on someone else’s experience with…God. And just because I wouldn’t choose his or her choices doesn’t make their experiences worth sharing. Even though I found myself grating my teeth and yelling, “Bad choices!!!!!” A lot. So, instead, […]
An interesting young adult historical novel
Eleven and a half years ago, I read a book that would (unbeknownst to me) awaken in me a craving for contemporary fiction. I had been raised on a steady diet of 18th and 19th century classic novels and had no idea that any other kind of novel existed, beyond the John Grisham-esque paperbacks that my high school friends liked to read. But when I took Much Ado About English, my introduction-to-the-major course at my beloved liberal arts college, I found a new love, though […]
What we do matters. A lot.
My sister gave me an IOU at Christmastime for God Help the Child, Toni Morrison’s latest book. I waited for months for this book to arrive. And then when it did, I had to work my way through an enormous library stack. Well, I finally committed to stopping all library requests and reading the books from my stack. One of the first I made room for was this one. And it was worth the wait. The theme of this book can be summed up in […]
Come home.
It’s been a few weeks since I read this book. I swore I would not get behind. And then the school year started, and it’s been way easier to read books than it is to write about them. Heck, I’m having a hard time balancing my grading and my own academic writing at the moment. Ah, well. No time like the present to start righting the ship, eh? Home is Toni Morrison’s second-latest novel. I checked out the audiobook from the library, because she reads […]
The game is always afoot!
I grew up reading Sherlock Holmes adventure stories. I immersed myself in the short stories and novels alike, and I delighted in the adaptations, particularly the episode of Wishbone that adapted The Hound of the Baskervilles (to date, my favorite Holmes novel). So I am always curious/suspicious when someone not-the-author writes a spinoff or adaptation of a popular and beloved author’s work (see: admirers or sycophants of Jane Austen). But when my friend K offered to lend her copy of Anthony Horowitz’s take, The House […]
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