Review:Most people think of Lewis as just writing Narnia and a few christian books, but his life was very deep and interesting. My 10-yr son read this book over the summer and really enjoyed it. The reading level is about 14-yrs old. Read more

Review:I really enjoy complete collections of a single author. Reading the good and the less-good, I get a sense of the writer's mind, as well as his voice and style. Mark Twain is the clear-eyed, sad-eyed self-invented man who hates fraud with a passion and is determined not to be cheated or deluded. I know of no other writer in English, except Swift, with such a low opinion of his fellow creatures.

However, the father of every cynic is a disappointed innocent. Twain grew up in a stern Pres... Read more

Review:There are works of fiction that change the way you look at life, and then there is the work of Jorge Luis Borges, which just might alter the way you look at everything, including yourself. The best way to explain Jorge Luis Borges is to compare him to painters - if you combined Picasso, Dali and Escher's imaginations into a writer, you would have Borges. His visions of doppelgangers, puzzles, labyrinths, infinite libraries and Argentine Gauchos are on a level of reality different from any other ... Read more

Review:tHIS IS mILTON'S CONTINUATION OF pARADISE lOST. pARADISE IS REGAINED UPON cHRIST'S ENTRANCE ON THE EARTH. iT BEGINS WITH cHRIST;S BAPTISM wHERE sATAN IS PRESENT AND WHO FOLLOWS cHRIST INTO THE DESERT AND TEMPTS HIM TO SHOW HIS POWER BY TURNING THE STONES INTO BREAD. i USED IT IN CONNECTION WITH THE SEASON OF LENT AND THE FORTY DAYS Christ fasted in the desert. Read more

Review:A great read for beginners in getting to learn how to speak and comprehend the language in an easier format. It's a different perspective and approach from the traditional learning method, abet also provides a lot of fun In doing so.I have tried this with both the Italian and Spanish set and have enjoyed them tremendously and so will you too. I received this product for free in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. My opinions and views are 100% my own, and are in no way sponsored, or com... Read more

Review:Gay's perspectives and opinions feel authentic and the work is consistently thought-provoking, challenging many social ideas I held. Her work felt utterly relatable while maintaining eloquence. Throughly enjoyed this read. Read more

Review:I purchased this collection because I had heard for years about the Lamb family's adaptation of Shakespeare to make it more suitable for children. I have a two-year-old daughter who enjoys listening to both short stories and chapters from novels such as Stuart Little or The Tale of Despereaux, and even Read more

Review:Hardy's last novel before public indignation forced him to give up book writing (for poetry) really uses passion as a destructive force. As he takes his most likable male character in Jude and basically ruins him against his 2 least enjoyable female leads in Arabell and Sue. Sue more than anything is infuriatingly fickle and will either make you yell at the book or wish for her early exit. She's a real struggle to cozy up to and yet she becomes the voice for Hardy to express his disgust with soc... Read more

Review:Although there's some slow-going moments in 'Blood & Gold' (though nowhere near as bad as 'Blackwood Farm') on the whole the story works fairly well and follows an 'Alexandria Quartet' style Multiple-Persons POV to tell, retell, and newly explain a shared history and series of events that the protagonists of the story were all involved in concurrently and/or sequentially and are thus better/worse able to explain than others. Lack of resolution of long-estranged relationships is a problem in... Read more

Review:This book is such a remarkable accomplishment in so many ways that I must give it the highest rating. However, I did not always find it engrossing and sometimes had to slog on. Although it is a translation, the language is still quite often beautifully wrought--particularly in descriptions of terrain and weather. The book also gave good insight into medieval Christianity as it affected ordinary lay people. It also gets into the mind of a female character of those times from childhood to old ... Read more