The Cloven Viscount is a novella by the famed Italian writer Italo Calvino. Together with The Baron in the Trees, and the Nonexistent Knight, it forms Calvino’s popular Our Ancestors Trilogy. The Cloven Viscount The Cloven Viscount is a fantastic novella about a Viscount who is exactly as the name implies – cloven. At the … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: November 2011
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
November 16, 2011 Dear friend, I just finished reading this book called The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. It’s a pretty short book, so it didn’t take too long to read. Add to the fact that though I had a paperback copy in my bag, I read an e-book version at work, … Continue reading »
Books for the Back to the Classics Reading Challenge, 2012
I think I have pretty much decided which books I’m going to be reading for the Back to the Classics Reading Challenge, 2012. It’s not easy to decide what to actually read, and in fact, I have a list of “back up” books for some of the categories, in case I can’t get through my … Continue reading »
A Feast for Crows
After 3 long months, I finally finished A Feast for Crows, the 4th book in George R.R. Martin’s 7-part epic series, A Song of Ice and Fire. I don’t know if it’s because the book that preceded it was action-packed and full of intrigue or because George R.R. Martin was running out of ideas for his … Continue reading »
The Interpretation of Murder
On August 29, 1909, Dr. Sigmund Freud and his colleagues, aboard the George Washington lands in New York… Later, on the same day, a young woman is brutally beaten and murdered in her apartment in downtown New York… The Interpretation of Murder, written by Jed Rubenfeld, is, essentially, a murder mystery, about the strange events … Continue reading »
Books / Fiction / Literature
Back to the Classics Reading Challenge 2012
Sarah Reads Too Much has recently announced that she will once again be hosting the Back to the Classics Reading Challenge in 2012. Like this year’s, the challenge is designed to get readers to read more of the Classics. The different categories in the reading challenge will also give readers the opportunity to choose … Continue reading »
