I enjoyed Preludes and Nocturnes so much that I was pretty sure I would enjoy The Doll’s House, the second volume in The Sandman comics. I am impressed by how Gaiman built on his story and pushed it in a new direction, one that makes me excited to continue the series. Dream has been restored, but now he must work to protect his kingdom from a dream vortex that threatens to invade others’ dreams and rip his world apart. Simultaneously, Rose Walker and her mother […]
What does it take to be a Kingsman?
I love me some Colin Firth. I also love me a good action movie. So when The Chancellor suggested a date night to see Kingsman: The Secret Service for Valentine’s Day, I was elated. Seriously, who needs Fifty Shades of Bleh? Overall, I enjoyed the movie up to the very end when a crude and tasteless sexist joke left a bad taste in my mouth. I was curioust o see how the graphic novel stacked up, and how Matthew Vaughn drew from the source material. […]
The world of Dream
I’m a relative latecomer to Neil Gaiman, but that’s made the journey all the more pleasurable for even getting there in the first place. I’ve read several novels, and am currently wanting some graphic novels in the mix. So it was an ideal time to start The Sandman series. I was intrigued by the premise, by Gaiman’s immense talent as a writer and storyteller, and by the merging of art and text. The first volume of The Sandman, titled Preludes and Nocturnes, introduces us to […]
Did Jack London secretly write this book? Or Katniss Everdeen?
I decided that my Composition I course this fall needed to have a new theme. My food units are getting aged, and thanks to Common Core curriculum in high schools, students are writing a lot about food before they get to college. Thus, I decided, why not dystopia? There is a lot to say about society, politics, culture, disease, natural disaster, technology, art, and warfare. So I’ve begun collating books about society, collapse, survival, and more. And that is why, when I stumbled across Bushcraft […]
An ironic question and a sweeping time period
I read Richard Flanagan’s most excellent Booker winner, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, last December, and I wanted to read more of his works. I have not read a lot of literature from ANZAC (that is, Australia-New Zealand Commonwealth), so I am interested in seeing what is out there. The Sound of One Hand Clapping takes place in Tasmania and features themes of immigration and identity, so I was curious to see how it compared to other works. The Sound of One Hand […]
The power of imagery and story
My friend K, who is specializing in short fiction in her doctoral work, suggested Season of Migration to the North as something I might be interested in rotating for my global literature courses. I don’t always find novellas satisfying, but sometimes they are handy when you try to fit in a lot of literature for your courses. Plus, in broadening my literary horizons beyond the Western canon, I am interested in the way writers have been translated into English and confront exotic “Othered” myths about […]
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