Review:What a strange fascinating narrator! While Jane Eyre will always be my favorite of Charlotte's novels, Villette holds its own. I admit the narration will not be for everyone. Often the side characters take on brighter more perceivable places in this story than it's hero, yet it is still compelling. I highly recommend this novel, and it's intriguing and and illusive narrator. Read more

Review:it's raw with so much emotion (said from a emotional person perspective). I found myself just as in milk and honey marking page after page. However some of it does sound like it was repeating mostly in the first chaper which was hard and rather boring for me to get through. Some pages are one sentence which saddens me as though she was just trying to make the book bigger or needed to fill a page. Read more

Review:The difficulty of having written a novel like “On the Road” is trying to follow up with a book that chronicles all that happens afterward. Kerouac wrote “Big Sur” as a reflection of what happens after a writer receives the fame and fortune that “The Road” brought. Like other writers such as, Joseph Heller, Erica Jong, and Henry Miller, trying to capture the book that made you famous will always fall far short. He is in his forties when he writes this and his Road days have long since past. His n... Read more

Review:My father used to read books by Daphine du Maurier, and I read them too. I happened to remember that, so looked up books by her and found several. "My Cousin Rachel" was an interesting book about those early days when people lived very formally. I was happy to find those books again. Read more

Review:This is an easy and fun read with interesting characters, The Curse of the Pharaohs (Amelia Peabody, Book 2)good humor, and plot peppered with archaelogical knowledge and the mysteries of Egypt. I highly recommend this book. Read more

Review:This book changed my life. There is one life before understanding Gracian and another life thereafter. I gave it away to more than 30 friends throughout more than 10 years. I made its reading mandatory to each one of my 4 children. My friends and I use to refer to its aforism as religious men refer to Bible salms. Last week I responded a request for advise from a friend: "Apply Gracian # 138". Regards. Read more

Review:Great read, take with a grain of salt....."any guru who says they know the truth, actually does not. The answer to the great mystery cannot be given, only received" stay open to the Divine and your question will be answered in a way only you can understand. Read more

Review:This is classic Twain. It is hilarious. If you want some entertaining reading, this is a great choice for a medium length introduction to Mark Twain. The "negro dialect" is easy to read once you get the hang of it. You do need to get past the use of the "n word" though as in many of the writings from that period. The almanac quotes keep you waiting for the next ones. Read more

Review:Even swaddled in turgid academic jargon, a tedious childbirth story is still a tedious childbirth story, and a “fluidly gendered” love story is still just a bourgeois romance. Citing all the equally jargon-loving academics and writers that you know or cribbed from doesn’t make you look smarter, just more derivative. Memoir need not devolve, as this one does, into mind-numbing solipsism—coincidentally, I was reading “The Beautiful Struggle” at the same time as I read “The Argonauts,” and Nelson w... Read more

Review:"Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life and learn to love the questions themselves." (From Letters to a Young Poet). Rainer M.
Rilke challenges us to accept the challenges of each day gracefully and with expectation. His thoughts continue to uplift me. Read more