by Sarah Hutchins | Sep 5, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Education, Parenting & Families, Poetry
Several books on the market instruct would-be poets how to write poems into their types – haiku, sonnet, ballad, limerick, and more. Other tomes deconstruct what makes classic poems great – the symbolism, metaphors, and so on. Matthew Zapruder, an...
by Sarah Hutchins | Aug 29, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Philosophy
Light glimmers in the shadows. The New Testament, Augustine, Boethius, Beowulf, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The Song of Roland, epic adventures of knights written by Chrétien de Troyes, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dante’s Divine Comedy,...
by Addison Fleming | Aug 14, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books
At present, the most notable members of the “Lost Generation,” a group of American writers reflecting on their experiences during and after the Great War, are Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein. A significant member of the Lost Generation,...
by Axie Barclay | Jul 6, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books
A Girl Walks into a Book: What the Brontes Taught Me About Life, Love, and Women’s Work, by Miranda K. Pennington, is an interesting read. It combines the author’s story and that of the Brontes’, not only their books, but their lives, letters, literary criticism, and...
by Michael Barton | Jun 16, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, History, Philosophy, Science & Technology, Social Science
Having previously written a book about literature and the Civil War, wherein he briefly mentions Charles Darwin in a section about abolitionism, Randall Fuller provides in his new book a fuller account of the influence of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and its...
by Don Messerschmidt | Jun 7, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, General Fiction
As soon as I began reading The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World: A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson by Brian Doyle, I was hooked. Right off, I found myself reminiscing about Stevenson’s many novels of adventure, especially Treasure Island...