realism – Cannonball Read 17

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

September 4, 2023 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR15 BINGO: Sex, because people are having casual sex in this book, except for Jake because. . .ya know. It has been banned and challenged because of its focus on sex (in addition to general debauchery). BINGO: South America, Politics, Take Flight, In the Wild, Sex “You’re an expatriate, you’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an […]

Women behaving badly, 19th century Norwegian realism edition

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Hedda Gabler by Herik Ibsen

March 14, 2020 by KimMiE" 2 Comments

Last year I took note of the Chancellor’s review of A Doll’s House, and realized that I had never actually read the drama, in spite of my admiration for Ibsen (An Enemy of the People was a high school favorite of mine). Wanting to rectify that, and thinking it would be interesting to also revisit Hedda Gabler, I decided to read both plays back to back and see what themes they have in common. My conclusion is that a repressed woman in the 19th century […]

You want something different in a romance? Here you go!

March 25, 2017 by Ellepkay 1 Comment

This is not an easy romance. Both the hero and heroine are rather unlikeable, almost to the point where you don’t believe they deserve a happy ending. And yet, this book was really, really good. It’s a hard book to recommend, but if anything about this review appeals to you, then you should definitely give it a try. It is the fourth and final book in the No Better Angels series, and while the hero has appeared in every other book of the series I […]

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