From 1980: Is capital punishment ever justified?| Modern Age
Happy Tuesday everyone! As it is Tuesday, it is time for a Top Ten Tuesday update. Top Ten Tuesday is an original blog meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and is currently being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s given topic: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read Lis TTitle: The Crying of Lot 49Author: Thomas PynchonPublisher: Vintage BooksPublishing […]| The Pine-Scented Chronicles
Hello, readers! It is Monday again! As it is Monday, welcome to another #5OnMyTBR update. The rule is relatively simple. I must pick five books from my to-be-read piles that fit the week’s theme. This week’s theme: No Prompt Since there is still no prompt this week, I will be featuring works my autumn reading list. […]| The Pine-Scented Chronicles
Five excellent stories from the late 1880s-early 1890s by the master of fiction, Henry James. Romance, useless parents, and a ghost feature.| Tredynas Days
I read Talk by Linda Rosenkrantz in August for #NYRBWomen25 but only got around to writing about it now. I was going to skip it at first, but my curiosity got the better of me, and after reading three chapters, I knew I was all the way in. Originally published in 1968, Talk is an…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
I’ve been reflecting on my previous post on JD Vance’s powerful memoir Hillbilly Elegy, and have since been looking back through the book (even had to renew it at my local library, as it had reached its due back date). … Continue reading → The post JD Vance, Hillbilly Elegy postscript appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
A remarkable memoir of a young man who escaped a life of grinding poverty and dysfunctional families to become a Yale law school graduate.| Tredynas Days
This week on The Literary Life Podcast we wrap up the book discussion portion of our series on Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. Today, Angelina and Thomas begin with chapter 22, going through the significant scenes all the way to the end of the book. They talk about the ways in which this book is an elegy, as well as the continued glimpses of “the family” as the main character. They also discuss the ways in which May shows herself to be more cunning that she pretends in contrast to...| The Literary Life
Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything. Penguin, 2024. First published 2024. Those who haven’t read the numerous previous novels by Elizabeth Strout in which the central characters in Tell Me Everything also appear will probably miss some of the nuances in … Continue reading → The post Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
Ernest Hemingway, Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises. Vintage, 2000; first published as The Sun Also Rises in 1926 (in the US); 1927 in Britain with the title Fiesta The central character in Fiesta, Hemingway’s first full novel, is the American … Continue reading → The post Ernest Hemingway, Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
Welcome to The Literary Life Podcast and a new series featuring the book The Age of Innocence. Our hosts, Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks introduce us to American Gilded Age author, Edith Wharton, the “First Lady of American Letters.” They also share their own experiences with reading Wharton’s stories, novels, and letters, as well as some background on the time period and cultural context in which she was writing. In discussing the first several chapters of this book, Angelina and T...| The Literary Life
I had read Elizabeth Hardwick’s essay collection Seduction and Betrayal many years ago but unfortunately did not write about it at the time, although I have a vague recollection of being impressed …| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Shelley Fisher Fishkin— Teaching America’s past and present in all its complexity has never been an easy task, but this challenge has become more difficult than ever, as more than... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Literary Wives is an on-line book group that examines the meaning and role of wife in different books. Four times a year, we post and discuss a book with this question in mind: What does this …| Consumed by Ink
s2e38 Big Business on Your Bookshelf, Authors Day at the Library. Martha speaks with Dan Sinykin about Big Fiction, How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. Tony Robles visits novelist, Beth Revis, and poet, Kyra Freeman, at Morganton Public Library in North Carolina. Also, we persist in resisting book bans and give thanks for your community radio station.| Listen & Be Heard Network
After reading Sarah Orne Jewett’s ‘A Country Doctor’, I decided to read another book by her, ‘The Country of the Pointed Firs’. ‘The Country of Pointed Firs̵…| Vishy's Blog
Should satirical art have equal measures of heart?| Public Books
AUTHOR: Colleen Hoover ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 2022 GENRE: Contemporary · Fiction · Romance · Young Adult GOODREADS RATING: 3.9/5 BUY ON AMAZON: KINDLE | PAPERBACK Read the review on Instagram | Goodreads ‘It Starts with US’ picks up the lives of Lily, Atlas, and Ryle from where ‘It Ends with Us’ ends. With Lily and Ryle divorced with their new-born daughter in […]| Bookish Bubble
AUTHOR: Harper Lee | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 1960 GENRE: Classics · Fiction · Historical · Young Adult GOODREADS RATING: 4.3/5 BUY ON AMAZON: KINDLE | PAPERBACK | HARDCOVER | AUDIOBOOK I listened to the audiobook – To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee narrated by Sissy Spacek on Audible. To be honest, I started reading this book with a pinch of […]| Bookish Bubble
Hi all! Finally, I have checked off ‘To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee’ from my TBR list which had been long overdue and before saying anything else I would say that it was more than worth it. I listened to the audiobook – To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee narrated by Sissy […]| Bookish Bubble
In To Kill a Mockingbird what does Atticus Finch’s relationship with the minor but important character Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose suggest about the quality of his moral vision? The post The Moral Vision of Atticus Finch appeared first on America in Class.| America in Class
How can we read “To Build a Fire” as a cautionary tale about the exploitation of nature? The post “To Build a Fire”: An Environmentalist Interpretation appeared first on America in Class.| America in Class
I continue my sabbatical from longform criticism as I write my novel, Major Arcana, which I am now serializing on Substack in both text and audio format for paid subscribers. For now, a brief catal…| John Pistelli
[I continue my sabbatical from long-form criticism as I write my novel, Major Arcana, which I am now serializing in both text and audio format for paid subscribers on my Substack, Grand Hotel Abyss…| John Pistelli
