Year of the Month: Joseph Finn on All Quiet On The Western Front
All Quiet On The Western Front (in the original German: Westen nichts Neues, “Nothing…
Year of the Month: The House at Pooh Corner
There’s a bit of a running theme in children’s lit: the first book will always…
Taco Break: What Makes Something Good?
Lately there have been a few items swimming in my head that make me consider…
Year of the Month: Miller on The Book of Three
“Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do.…
M-O-O-N, That Spells Ambitious: Ben Hammel (Bhammer100) on The Stand (Year of the Month)
Stephen King’s The Stand, an epic, sweeping tale the destruction of civilization due to a…
Towards a book as big as the world: LIFE A USER’S MANUAL (Year of the Month)
A few years ago, while in Paris, I went on a pilgrimage to find a…
Year of the Month: Scott Broussard (scb0212) on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human…
Yin and Yang and Henry James
Humans in general, and artists especially, have a tendency to divide their ideas into opposing…
Back to the ‘City’: Prologue
‘These novels are as difficult to put down as a dish of pistachios. The reader…
Are You a Big Immature Baby When It Comes to Reading?
If there was every a literary ‘debate’ I wish would die, it’s ‘Is YA literature…