15
Mar
2010
Manga Shakespeare: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare & Mustashirk Mahbab
Perhaps it is the nature of Comedy vs. Tragedy, but of the two Manga Shakespeare editions I’ve read so far, I liked A Midsummer Night’s Dream much better.
9
Feb
2010
The Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane
About 200 pages into this 500+ page epic, I figured out that this most be book 1 of a series. The main characters had not even joined the army yet.
20
Oct
2009
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
It’s tough when you have a understanding of something to not let inconsistancies or violations bug you when you just want to be entertained. For example, whenever we watch movies about, say, the American Revolution, my husband will point out that they are using the wrong guns. And so, because of my basic knowledge of anthropology and evolution I was often irked while reading this book.
8
Jun
2009
The Pre-Printing Press Challenge
I’ve never done a reading challenge before. I don’t know why, I just haven’t. But I’m already hooked! I’ve just begun and have already signed up for three of them. I know everything that I’m reading for the first two, but I want to give them each their own special post.
6
May
2009
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
In preparing to take the A.P. English test when I was in eleventh grade, I chose this book, The Tempest, and I don’t know…something else. The question on the test that year was something to effect of “sometimes the journey, getting from one place to another, is the most important part rather than the actual destination blah, blah, blah.” I made a case for the search for Prospero’s daughter and it was pretty weak. I ended up getting a 3 on the test and I blame my idiocy with this question for it. Why I didn’t realize that Siddhartha is in itself a journey, I don’t know. Also, had we read Heart of Darkness yet I could have used that and would have aced the damn thing, but alas, we’d not read it yet.
