The Vinland Sagas are two sagas that tell the stories of the discovery and settlement of Greenland and the first voyages to America, including the first trading and fighting with the Native Americans, some hundreds of years before Columbus mistook the Americas for India. (Hence, Native Americans being called Indians and generations of confusion ever [...]
Filed under: Classics on December 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
First, I always thought it was D’Ubervilles…which shows how your memory can fool you since I first read this when I was about 13. Secondly, since I was 13 there were a lot of things I missed in the book – little remarks by characters or comments from the narrator that add to the story. [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on December 22nd, 2009 | Comments Off
To begin, let me say that I am mentally, and furiously, kicking myself in the teeth for not having started this book sooner. I’ve had it since about three days after the book signing for the Wheel of Time book (the bookstore was sold out of all of Sanderson’s books by the time we arrived) [...]
Filed under: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Series on December 19th, 2009 | Comments Off
Well now, I am in quite a pickle for reviews and reading – not because, as one would think, I have no material but rather because I have an overabundance of material. I well remember the days, which weren’t that long ago, when I had to scrounge and scrape to get enough money to buy [...]
Filed under: Story Time on December 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Born of Ice, by Sherrilyn Kenyon, is actually a re-print of a set of books Kenyon wrote much earlier in her career. The set: Born of Night, Born of Fire, and Born of Ice were all edited before being republished by St. Martin’s for the purpose of fitting back together stories that had been previously [...]
Filed under: Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Series on December 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Kill me if you must, but this is another review of a book I have not yet finished. One reason for my slowness is indecision: I’ve been reading about four books lately, in little chunks, and I keep meaning to get back to this one only to think that I shouldn’t start back on it [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on December 15th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m fairly certain I reviewed this when I read it last semester, but it’s one of my favorite Austen novels so I feel like it’s worth bringing it up again. Persuasion was published postumously, and while there are many things that make it interesting I’ll give you two facts right away that have readers, scholars, [...]
Filed under: Classics on December 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I wish this wasn’t the last book of the series. I have absolutely loved every book of the series. The characters were fantastic, though I’m sad we lost track of some and mad that some of them didn’t die like I wanted (the bad guys, I mean) and elated because for once it’s a whole [...]
Filed under: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Series on December 12th, 2009 | Comments Off
I have never been quite satisfied with the current template for the NeoLibrarium page, though I do like it better than the original, which I felt didn’t allow for enough content on the sidebars. Now that I’ve had some time to start looking again, I have a few prospective templates I’d like to consider. I’m [...]
Filed under: Site News on December 12th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This was one of the books I needed to read for class and my overall impression at the end was…confusion. This just does not strike me as one of the best books of all time, nor do I see why literary canon includes Virginia Woolf as a major author. Hopefully, this is just not one [...]
Filed under: Classics, Discussion on December 11th, 2009 | 1 Comment »