Bury Your Dead
Looking For Me
Cottage at Glass BeachI chose to re-read this classic tale because of romantic memories from high school. I recall watching the boys in our literature class acting out the various scenes with pretend swords. They appeared so gallant, so brave and manly. I’m sure I did a lot of sighing. Fifty years later the romance is gone. What [...]
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Author: Willa Cather Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1918 Genre: Classic Fiction My Rating: A+ Jim Burden was a ten year old Virginia boy whose parents died within a year of each other. As the story opened Jim was on a train with Jake, a hired hands. They were on their way to Nebraska to live with [...] I finally finished reading On the Road. That is one of those books everyone says is a must-read. Well, now I can check it off my list. I thoroughly enjoyed the writing and the people Kerouac meets on his cross-country trips. I wasn’t crazy about his friends or the “beat” lifestyle. My review is posted [...] The women in my book club really like John Steinbeck. I do too, but not so much this one. Out of eleven, there were only two of us with any negative comments. I really felt horrible about it, especially for the woman who had chosen this huge book for us to read. The woman who [...] Author: John Steinbeck Publisher: Covici Friede, 1937 Genre: Classic Fiction My Rating: A Summary: Four different stories, centered around a young boy named Jody, make up this book. The stories are set on a ranch in Salinas Valley, California during the early twentieth-century. Jody is an only child and the ranch is isolated, so it’s [...] I set a goal for myself at the beginng of the year to read some of those great books I’ve been putting off for years. I joined a couple of read-a-longs, hoping that reading with others would be a good incentive. Knowing that others are reading the same thing at the same time is very [...] |
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