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Stealing Athena: A Novel
Karen Essex
Doubleday, 2008
Quite enjoyable
I am am avid reader of historical fiction, and am surprised I missed this one somehow until now. Essex's novel focuses on the famous Elgin marbles, and is told in both first person and third. At first, I found this jarring, but after getting used to it, I settled in ...
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At Her Service
Susan Johnson
Brava, 2008
4.5 Blue Ribbons from Romance Junkies!
The Marquis of Darley, Hugh D'Abernon is on his way to the Russian town of Sevastopol for reconnaissance. An agent with the British Secret Service during the Crimean War, his cover is that of a Tatar and he has perfected an authentic accent to prove it. His mission is ...
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Measuring the World: A Novel (Vintage)
Daniel Kehlmann
Vintage, 2007
Exploration by introspection
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann is a tongue in cheek biographic novel contrasting two heros of the romantic enlightenment, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Alexander von Humboldt. Gauss is a dispeptic and erratic genius lacking the will or capacity for social ...
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Jane Eyre (Norton Critical Editions)
Charlotte Bronte
W. W. Norton, 2000
The only edition to buy
This review is aimed more toward the Norton edition than to JANE EYRE. We all know this is a classic. Bronte was simply a genius and a harbinger of romantic, dramatic, gothic, and horror writing. (However, it still irks me that she couldn't end a simple sentence with a ...
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition)
Walt Whitman
Dover Publications, 2007
What More Can Be Said?
It's difficult to think of something appropriate to say about a man who spent his life trying to express the panorama of humanity through the lense of his own heart. From a drop of blood to the grandeur of a shipyard or a continent, he takes all readers on a journey ...
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True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel
Peter Carey
Vintage, 2001
Heartbreaking struggles
This one's a heartbreaker about poor Irish and their futile efforts to avoid being stepped on an ruined by the wealthy and powerful, leading to inevitable crimes of revenge and justice. Written in dialect that's not difficult as though it were actually Kelly writing. ...
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Charlotte Brontė
Penguin Classics, 2006
One of the Greatest Books in all of English Literature!!
Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books! It is not at all like other great novels -- it is great in it's own way. I was introduced to Jane Eyre by my best friend. I had read the adapted version first, and then my best friend gave me the unadapted Jane Eyre for a birthday ...
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Pilgrims
Elizabeth Gilbert
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Satisfying indeed.
A friend's interest in Gilbert spurned me to read this short story collection, which I found very enjoyable. Gilbert has a way of creating a very vivid scene and situation, so as to wrap your interest around the characters promptly. Then, naughty as it is, she ends ...
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Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics)
Walt Whitman
Penguin Classics, 1961
A Wonderful Classic Read
Certain books never get old and can be read again and again. This is one of them!
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A War, Terrible War: 1855-1865 A History of US Book 6 (A History of Us)
Joy Hakim
Oxford University Press, USA, 2007
Riveting, moving, and impossible to put down, War, Terrible War takes us into the heart of the Civil War, from the battle of Manassas to the battle of Gettysburg and on to the South's surrender at Appomattox Court House. Follow the common soldiers in blue and gray as they endure long marches, freezing winter camps, and the bloodiest battles ever ...
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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Grove Press, 1965
Understand the Psychology of Violent Revolt
This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 - December 6, 1961) was a Martinique-born French author and essayist. He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the ...
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Killing Mister Watson
Peter Matthiessen
Vintage, 1991
Review of "Killing Mister Watson"
Killing Mr. Watson is a historical fiction based on the 1910 vigilante murder of Edgar Watson in the Everglades of southwest Florida. Mr. Watson is a shadowy character who appears in the south Florida town of Chokoloskee at the turn of the century, when south Florida ...
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Shirley (Penguin Classics)
Charlotte Brontė
Penguin Classics, 2006
A Very Slow Read: 5 Stars With Reservations
This is an interesting novel but it is not a good purchase for the general reader. The Penguin version has a good introduction by Lucasta Miller with a number of interesting bits of information and notes on the novel and the Bronte sisters in general.
This novel was ...
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The Illustrated Jane Eyre (Penguin Illustrated Classics)
Charlotte Brontė
Studio, 2006
cool illustrations
The illustrations are appealing and really portray the emotion of the story.
My mom sent me this book as a present, and I immediately loved it; but that is perhaps because I have slightly gothic/victorian tastes and because the drawings remind me of myself. Not to ...
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Pocket, 2005
nice edition of this classic
This is a nice edition of Jane Eyre. One reason I bought it was because the cover resembles Joan Fontaine, my favorite actress to portray Jane. It has some helpful introductory material, if you are teaching this novel in an English class.
One thing that's different ...
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