The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann
“He stood by the window, feeling quite astonished at the degree of unawareness that the world at large displayed of the changes in his household. Today he had neither breakfasted nor read his post. Jacques was laid low by some mysterious ailment. And life outside was going on as normal.” -Radetzky March, Joseph RothRead More »
Hey Redbirds!
So now that all of my reviews are transferred from my old blog, the daily posts are going to come to an end, sadly. I wish I could still post reviews daily, but there is no way I can read that quickly to be able to keep up with that kind of a schedule. This means that starting now, I will be posting reviews (hopefully) every other Monday, starting Monday, June 22.
I can’t wait to start reading and reviewing new books with you all!
Read on!
Molly
P.S. This also means that I will start posting reviews on my other review blog, redbirdreads. Hopefully.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
I started this book well over a month ago, but then the end of the semester got really busy for me. Then once everything was done and over with and I was back home, it was hard for me to focus on it again because it felt like I was starting the book halfway through, and it took me a while to remember everything I’d read a month ago.Read More »
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
This book is about this young, unnamed, African American man who is introduced to us as an invisible man who goes on to tell the story of how he became to be invisible, living in a hole. We follow him through the end of his college career to New York where there’s a civil rights movement going on.Read More »
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
This book was the first book I had to read this semester for my Introduction to Women’s Writing course, which I mainly took because this semester the focus is on Gender/Queer theory. Written in the 1920s, it was the first lesbian novel published in the English language, and in some ways could also be considered the first transgender novel.Read More »
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
I’ve recently learned that some claim that this book is a nightmare, compared to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland being a dream. I find that I disagree. When reading this book I found the land that Alice found herself in more pleasant than Wonderland in the first book. I can’t put my finger on why though.Read More »
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
This and the sequel, Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass are on my list of 1001 books to read, and as luck may have it, I am taking a class on Lewis Carroll this semester, so have just finished the first book. I expected it to be completely different from the Disney movie, because it’s more of an episodic tale than one with much of a continuous plot, or so I’d heard. To me, it seemed as if there was a very continuous plot. Read More »
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Yet another book read off of my list of 1001 books, and one challenge done off the 2015 Reading Challenge I am also trying to complete.
I picked this book up several months ago at a book sale at the public library near my college. I didn’t know what it was about or anything about it really, but I knew that it was a book on the list of 1001 I should read before I die (and will read before I die), so I bought it. It was an added bonus when I looked at the back and noticed that it had won a Pulitzer Prize so I could use it to complete one of the reading challenges.Read More »
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
I’m surprised that it took me (barely) less than a week to read this book because when I started it, it felt like it was going to take ages. When I read the summary on the back of the book, I thought it was going to be a book similar to Parrotfish, a book about a transgender teen. It was sort of similar, but not as similar as I expected it to be.Read More »
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
So, for those of you who weren’t clued in by the title, this book is about a journey to the center of the earth. Shocker I know. The main character (Harry) and his uncle go on this journey because the uncle, a professor and mineralogist, finds a note from some notable somebody in this book he found that gave instructions to find the entrance to the center of the earth. Harry thinks his uncle crazy for believing the journey possible, but goes anyway. The instructions lead them to Iceland, where they hire a guide, Hans, who stays with them for the entire journey.Read More »
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