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Aaaanndd...once again it's time to do a review about a book I was required to read for school this year. Having only five weeks of school left before summer break, the books required for my British Literature class seem to be ending with a bang. Most recently, I finished C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce, which,... Continue Reading →
Two books that I was assigned for my class on British literature was Lewis Caroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/ Through the Looking Glass and Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. Both are classic children's stories that I was familiar with growing up, but it wasn't until I read them this year that I realized that both... Continue Reading →
Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë are two of the greatest female authors to have ever lived. Charlotte Brontë, having been born a year before Austen died, was familiar with her work and famously said of Pride and Prejudice in a letter to George Henry Lewes in January 1848: “Miss Austen being, as you say, without 'sentiment,'... Continue Reading →
If any of you guys have been with me since I first started my blog (thank you if you have been), you'll know that one of the first book reviews I ever wrote on here was a review of Charlotte Bronte's book, Jane Eyre, a book that I thoroughly disliked for what I saw to... Continue Reading →
Mary Shelley was an interesting person. Her father was an atheist and encouraged her to adhere to his anarchist political beliefs. She had a rich education and when she was a teenager, she was the mistress, then wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. That meant that she had many social connections with prominent writers... Continue Reading →
Of all of Jane Austen's books, I think Northanger Abbey gets the least recognition. If it hadn't been for the fact that my copies of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility are both annotated, I probably never would've heard about it, much less read it. However, here we are. I read Northanger Abbey and... Continue Reading →
It's the last week of Black History Month before we transition into Women's History Month, so it's time to talk about a book that combines those two factors: supposed racism and a good female protagonist (as well as being written by a woman). If you're tired of hearing me talk about banned books, don't worry.... Continue Reading →
Last week for my American Literature course, I read and finished Booker T. Washington's autobiography Up from Slavery, which is the story of how he grew up, was able to go to school, and eventually founded the famous Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). In my eyes, this book is completely unproblematic. It's his raw story... Continue Reading →
Continuing with my game of "Ban or Unban," we're going to be taking a look today at Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the much more famous sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Interestingly, part of why this book is so popular is because it hasn't just been banned today, but it was... Continue Reading →
Happy Black History Month! Why we need a month dedicated to people based on the color of their skin, I have no idea, but here we are. For this month, I've decided to play a little game with my book reviews that I call "Ban or Unban" where I look at some books that have... Continue Reading →
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