I really like Siri Hustvedt as a novelist. I started with A Summer without Men and moved to The Blazing World, which was just incredible. What I Loved is one of her most famous, and I was eager to read that. Last year, crystalclear got me this book, and I was happy to put it on my TBR shelf. Now that I have read it, I can get to the review! Hooray! Hustvedt writes from a male protagonist’s perspective this time. Leo is an academic […]
An interesting, if repetitive, Harry Potter literary analysis
When I was doing my Master’s degree, I was briefly doing research with one of my professors surrounding the Harry Potter books. While it ultimately didn’t come to fruition, I picked up several interesting books in context to the series. One was John Granger’s The Deathly Hallows Lectures, which focus solely on the end of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I was looking forward to reading this, because a bunch of the other Harry Potter critical theory books were published in the […]
A fascinating personality discovery
I must confess, I am a huge fan of personality tests and types. As soon as I hear about a type, I take the test to figure out “who” I am. I am a Capricorn (but just baaarely, because I was born at 2 am on December 22, so I am a half-Sagittarius, as well) by horoscope, an ENFJ on the Myers-Briggs, a Blue-Orange on the Color Test, and a Ravenclaw (though given a choice between that and Hufflepuff, and I was raised by two […]
Our American Tragedy
Reading Between the World and Me was a revelation for me and many others. It brought Ta-Nehisi Coates into the mainstream conversation, and it added a component to the conversation about race and systemic racism in the United States. I was eager to read his new book, We Were Eight Years In Power, because it was a compilation of Atlantic articles during Barack Obama’s tenure as president of the United States. I had also read “The First White President” and was troubled and challenged by […]
An eerie and timely reminder about women’s reproductive rights in 2017
My current research is focusing on post-9/11 dystopian literature and women’s reproductive agency. So the fact that Louise Erdrich’s new book fits neatly within these categories is highly convenient for me. Thanks, Erdrich! I was delighted to see that her new book appeared to be relevant to my project, so delighted, in fact, that I promptly broke my no-buy rule and bought the hardcover on the day it was released. Because, you know, research. Cedar Songmaker is adopted by two liberal white hippies, and her […]
An entertaining, if uneven, young adult series starter
I make it a point to read books that my students recommend to me. Overall, I’m grateful. Because of my students, I have read (and enjoyed) Wild and Room, as well as a smattering of other books. I had a rocky start with an online class at the beginning of the semester, but there was a major reconciliation that helped it continue smoothly, and one thing that happened was that a student mentioned that she was a major fan of Sarah J. Maas. I saw […]
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