Archive for the ‘Fiction’ Category
Saturday, April 1st, 2006
| |
| Tell friends about this blog entry |
|
| Author: | John Galsworthy |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction, historical |
| Year of publication: | 1918 |
Makes the case for either marriage for love or marriage for convenience, but that it's necessary to decide up front which it's going to be. Still relevant after all these years.
|
|
| Similar books |
If you found this review helpful and/or interesting, consider supporting our book habit: Buy this book!: Forsyte Saga |
Posted in Conceptual: highly sophisticated, Culture, Female protagonist, Fiction, History, Reading level: Sophisticated reader | Comments Closed
Saturday, April 1st, 2006
| |
| Tell friends about this blog entry |
|
| Author: | C. S. Lewis |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction, myths |
| Year of publication: | 1956 |
The legend of Cupid and Psyche is revisited in this beautiful but extremely sad consideration of the necessarily stressful interactions between humanity and its deities.
|
|
| Similar books |
If you found this review helpful and/or interesting, consider supporting our book habit: Buy this book!: Till We Have Faces : A Myth Retold |
Posted in Conceptual: highly sophisticated, Culture, Dragons and/or mythological beasts, Fairy tales, Female protagonist, Fiction, History, Reading level: age 12 and up | Comments Closed
Saturday, April 1st, 2006
| |
| Tell friends about this blog entry |
|
| Author: | Lauren Belfer |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction, historical |
| Year of publication: | 1999 |
Kind of a Handmaid's Tale (without the explicit sex) that takes place in Buffalo, NY at the dawn of the 20th century.
|
|
| Similar books |
If you found this review helpful and/or interesting, consider supporting our book habit: Buy this book!: City of Light |
Posted in Conceptual: highly sophisticated, Culture, Dealing with bullies, Dickensian, Female protagonist, Fiction, History, Reading level: Sophisticated reader | Comments Closed
Saturday, April 1st, 2006
| |
| Tell friends about this blog entry |
|
| Author: | John Irving |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction, historical |
| Year of publication: | 1999 |
Complex, heavily plotted, John Irving disquisition on how official rules/laws and unwritten norms are unequally enforced based on gender, social status, and other factors. In other words, it's about the politics and the realities of Making Hard Choices. |
Unlike Jane Eyre and David Copperfield, orphans in The Cider House Rules are routinely well cared for and frequently give in to temptation (for good causes, of course). Irving bravely compares himself to these two, and to Dickens, and bravely proclaims the utility and necessity of lying (aka creation of fiction) in the face of unfair rules.
Once you finish reading The Cider House Rules, you will feel compelled to (re)read David Copperfield and Jane Eyre.
|
| Similar books |
If you found this review helpful and/or interesting, consider supporting our book habit: Buy this book!: Cider House Rules, The |
Posted in Conceptual: for grown ups, Culture, Death is a central theme, Female protagonist, Fiction, Gifted, Reading level: Sophisticated reader | Comments Closed
