I’m not much of a memoir reader, so reading someone else’s personal history/confessional/testimony is always a bit of a gamble. I really do appreciate someone else’s voice giving me their story, but unless the writing is truly excellent and the tone is one that catches my attention/empathy, I’m not likely to be too moved by it. And such is the result with Paul Kalanithi’s book, When Breath Becomes Air. Read my full review for the scoop, and do be sure to check out The Chancellor’s […]
A charming and sweet love letter to the power of story
Back in March, we had an instructor emergency, which led me to take on an extra class mid-semester (and is part of the reason I am SO FAR BEHIND on my Cannonball reviewing). It’s always hard to take on another person’s course, especially when your own classload is fairly full, and doubly especially when their syllabus is frighteningly sparse. We muddled through somehow, and thankfully, the last unit of the course synced up with my other two classes. As a result, I got to hear […]
A book that way outgrosses the movie in misery porn
I know it’s popular in Pajibaland to hate on The Revenant, but I found the movie to be really quite interesting. It provoked quite a conversation the weekend The Chancellor and I saw it together with my youngest sister, and it’s gorgeously shot. Also, it’s a misery-porn marathon, and make no mistake about it. I mean… I knew the film was inspired by a true story (Hugh Glass is part of a fur company, gets attacked by a bear and has mortal injuries, is left […]
Reader, I was disappointed.
I read several rave reviews of Lyndsay Faye’s Jane Steele, and while I was a bit nervous about the serial killer angle (will it be like Sweeney Todd? I wondered), I was more than happy to give it a shot. Jane Eyre was a novel I looooooved in high school and then, as an adult, realized that Mr. Rochester is a very bad man. A very bad man indeed. [Shhhh, not now, Daniel. We’ll talk about you later.] Anyway, I read Patricia Park’s most excellent […]
My Favorite Holmes Adventure
There are those typical Sherlock Holmes adventures that involve mystery, maniacs, and murder, and then there are those that tinge on the thrilling and scary. The Hound of the Baskervilles is actually kind of scary. I’ve read it several times, and each time, there is a bit of thrill and chill that occurs when I read it. The BBC Sherlock series does it paltry justice in the second season, if you ask me. Read my full review to find out why.
More Sherlock Holmes Stories!
When it comes to the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels, there is a wide variety from which to choose. There are always those standouts that you remember (and that Wishbone sought to adapt!), and then there are others that are forgettable/racist/poorly-written or plotted. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are written by John Watson as a much older man, thinking about previously unpublished Holmes and Watson mysteries, including the one that would set Arthur Conan Doyle against his fanbase. In my full review, I again recap […]
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