I picked up this book because of a review I read somewhere that compared Freudenberger to Jhumpa Lahiri; I suppose with expectations that high, I should have expected to be let down, which I definitely was to the nth degree. This book started out with so much potential, but about a quarter of the way …
When I think about Dylan Thomas, I immediately think about 1) the poem I am about to discuss, and 2) the first time I heard Dylan Thomas’s name, while listening to the Simon & Garfunkle, “A Simple Desultory Philippic” with my dad. I must have been about 12 or 13 and the lyrics really resonated …
Major Pettigrew’s artistic designer should win a prize. His catchy title is emblazoned across a lovely periwinkle blue book jacket, beneath which a couple of vibrantly coloured old-fashioned jackets and hats hang on an equally old-fashioned coat tree. I do have to confess that the sheer loveliness of this book jacket drove me away from Ms. …
I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it …
Everyone else who has read Emma Donoghue’s newest novel, Room seems to love it – including the judges for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (for best Canadian novel), and the Commonwealth Fiction Prize (Canada & Carribbean Region), all of which she won won handily. Perhaps …
Well here I am again…reading about women’s trials and tribulations. It’s an age-old classic that will never end. I thought perhaps I’d had enough of it after working on my graduate thesis covering the “New Woman” and her struggles. But no, I decided to open up Liza Donnelly’s Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women …
At the urging of pretty much everyone I know who enjoys reading, I finally read Jeannette Walls memoir, The Glass Castle. Somehow I managed to completely miss all of the hype about the New York Times bestseller that was published in 2005 and only just recently found out of it’s existence when pressed to read …
Amy Chua has evoked many extreme and widely varied reactions to her new, controversial memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. A quick glance at the thousands of comments on her original WSJ article (a condensed version of her book), or the comments on any of the numerous articles that have since sprouted up in …
My good friend and avid fan of this blog, Jane Costa, requested that I post a review on the final instalment of Steig Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Jane has been quite supportive The Poor Poet as it struggles to find itself in the ever expanding world of bloggers, and …
Having already reviewed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in depth, this review will be short and sweet. Like this first book in Larsson’s trilogy, I flew through this one in a matter of days. For what it is, it’s a really fantastic book. If you are comparing it to some of the great literary masterpieces of …
