Tag Archives: american lit

“A Temporary Matter” By Jhumpa Lahiri

  Few authors are able to move me the way Jhumpa Lahiri does. Her words are simple; her language neither fancy nor elegant. Yet she is somehow able to capture the essence of everyday existence in each story who writes. “A Temporary Matter” is the first piece in her Pulitzer Prize winning short story collection …

April 19, 2013 – 11:49 pm | By Bethann | Posted in Read in 2013 | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

THE NEWLYWEDS, BY NELL FREUDENBERGER

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 …

May 12, 2012 – 2:05 pm | By Bethann | Posted in READ IN 2012, REVIEWS | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

REVIEW: The Great Gatsby, BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

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 …

May 16, 2011 – 2:59 pm | By Bethann | Posted in MUSINGS, QUOTES, READ IN 2011, REVIEWS | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

WHAT I’M READING: DEC. 23

One of my favourite things about the holiday season is all the extra time I have to read! At least, that’s what I tell myself every year before heading home for Christmas, although in actuality, I probably end up reading a lot less than I do on a regular basis. Here we are on the …

December 24, 2010 – 12:58 am | By Bethann | Posted in READ IN 2010, WHAT I'M READING | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

REVIEW: The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire, by Jack London

When I was a kid, The Call of the Wild was one of my most cherished books; I read it over and over until the cover started to fall off. I remember being outraged at Manuel’s treachery, traumatized by the man with the red sweater’s brutality and heart broken at Curly’s death. Although Buck is …

December 12, 2010 – 11:27 pm | By Bethann | Posted in READ IN 2010, REVIEWS | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)