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Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School There are few books I’ve read that I’m hesitant even to review, simply because of how the title will look coming up on my Feed (I’m talking about you, Confessions of … Continue reading
This book holds a special place in my heart. I first read it as a senior in college, not because any professor assigned it, but because it looked interesting, and because I was now a “scholar” in a liberal arts … Continue reading
I think we all are going to miss these books. I have been reading them to the whole family—we finished Little Town on the Prairie a few months ago—and we got to complete this eighth book in October as we … Continue reading
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was assigned reading during an ethics class I took recently, specifically for a lesson on Utilitarianism and teleological thinking. Since no paper or report on the text was required for the class, my review here … Continue reading
Original story by Mark Twain I’m not sure why we chose to read these books out of order—that’s not normal for me—but my kids and I followed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with this, the Illustrated Classics Edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. … Continue reading
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I had requested this classic novel for my siblings’ 2018 reading list, but as it turns out, I’m the only rube who hadn’t yet read it. That had to change. So after finishing The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky a few … Continue reading
The one human being she had ever fully and wholeheartedly trusted had failed her; the only man she had ever known to whom she could point and say with expert knowledge, “He is a gentleman, in his heart he is … Continue reading
I have to admit that I went into this short tragedy confused, hoping by the title, The Game, that it was the story of the man who hunts humans for fun. That story, however, is called The Most Dangerous Game, published … Continue reading
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The picture as we saw it, then, is of an Asia where we stand relatively mute, locked in the cities, misunderstanding the temper and the needs of the Asians. We saw Americans spending vast sums where Russia spends far less … Continue reading
This is the tenth day of September in the year 2000, and you have slept exactly one hundred and thirteen years, three months, and eleven days. (19) As generally happens whenever I feel compelled to read a classic, I finally … Continue reading
