Even with audiobook during travels and a major cleaning expedition, this *STILL* took an entire summer to read. Whew. I didn’t realize that when I casually decided to read Dracula, that it was quite an undertaking. This book was a lot different than I expected it to be, but that didn’t turn out to be a bad thing. Until the second half disappointed me quite a bit. If you have ever heard anything about vampires, vampire lore, or the unfortunate Twilight saga, you’ll know that […]
Who is “my mortal enemy”?
When I was at my local library, I just sort of swooped through the Cather books and picked them all up. I didn’t realize that in addition to her sweeping novels, Cather also wrote some very short tomes. My Mortal Enemy is one such book. It clocks in at just over 100 pages, and it is more a vignette than an actual plot, which makes it a challenge to blog about. My Mortal Enemy takes the viewpoint of Nellie Birdseye, a 15-year-old girl living out […]
A bridge to nowhere
Hey, look, I’m still reading Willa Cather! Are we surprised? I decided not to go in chronological order, so I’ve been jumping around her oeuvre. As a result, I’m reading her first novel among the last. It’s okay, though. Even though I don’t necessarily get a sense of Cather’s progression as a writer, I’m definitely enjoying the different facets of her writing style, particularly the early works. She’s earned a reputation as a Great Plains writer, but she’s definitely about more than just regionalism. She’s […]
A Cather novel about the Antebellum South.
I’m now working my way through Willa Cather’s less famous novels, and I have to say, I’m disappointed the ones I’ve been reading are less famous than they could be. The Song of the Lark, O Pioneers!, and Death Comes for the Archbishop are all very deservedly famous, but after reading Sapphira and the Slave Girl, I hope that more of her works can receive greater prominence. She’s an excellent writer and she takes her readers to a bunch of backgrounds throughout the course of North American […]
How to use food rakes online. And other social media insights on love.
When I heard that Aziz Ansari was coming out with a book, I placed a hold in my library catalog IMMEDIATELY. And then I waited FOREVER. I heard during the wait that Modern Romance was not a memoir but an exploration of love and social media. I was intrigued. I mean, there was no way I was not going to read this book. I love me some Aziz, particularly because I love his interpretation of Tom Haverford. So in honor of this auspicious character, Tom […]
I KNEW IT! Heat is bad, and I’m not crazy for liking winter.
I heard about Eric Klinenberg’s book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago last month when fellow Cannonballer Lollygagger gave it a favorable review. I’ve been reading up on various memoirs and nonfiction accounts of disasters and other dystopian elements in our world, and this book seemed to fit the bill. Also, as someone who has lived outside Chicago for the last four years, I was interested in the contemporary history aspect of the book. My sister is currently in paramedic school in […]
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