GoodReads ★★★★ #TimeTravelTuesday This has become a Christmas tradition, and the story is usually one of my few pre-orders each year. A short read while waiting for the Christmas dinner.As always, it is fun. But only read this if you are already familiar with the series. This is one of those series that are best... Continue Reading →
GoodReads ★★★★ I couldn't read this without hearing the song from Horrible Histories. Either way this was a very interesting read. I have read some Plato before for school, but never his more famous work on Socrates. Here he really tries to keep the style rather simple - for he is accused of bedazzling the... Continue Reading →
GoodReads ★★★★ I saw some of Owen's work in class, but it was a while ago and I can't really recall it. However, his tragic end just before the armistice stuck with me, especially since his poems are very anti-war. Poetry in the Little Black Classics has not been the easiest for me. However, I... Continue Reading →
GoodReads ★★ I didn't really like this and I think it is mainly due to the fact I disagree with what it proposes. It features a writer who cannot enjoy all the positive reviews for his latest work since he feels that all reviewers are missing the most important point he is trying to make.... Continue Reading →
GoodReads ★★★★ This edition contains two short stories by the American author Edith Wharton. The first is on marriage and falling in and out of love. And while I quite liked the concept, I liked the second story a bit better. It's about an old woman who's main pleasure in life is watching the world... Continue Reading →
GoodReads ★★ I thought it would be a no-brainer I would like this. It's a historical account of London around and during the great fire of London in 1666, which burned down much of The City as well as burned out the plague (to name one good thing that came from it). The signs of... Continue Reading →
GoodReads ★★★ This is a weird story. A man wakes up to find his nose missing and for him, this is the end of the world. How can he ever go out in public again, how could someone possibly take him serious ever again? This is rather absurd of course, and there is very little... Continue Reading →
GoodReads ★★★ I am a little bit conflicted about stories like A Simple Heart. It tells the rather bleak life of a servant girl. And while I like that the main character is not a hero of some sort or very special, it does not make for the most engaging type of story. The writing... Continue Reading →
GoodReads ★★ I am in the minority here who didn't like The Meek One. I just really didn't enjoy the story about a man who is so detached from his young wife that he drives her to suicide. The writing is good but I really can not stand to read about all this psychological abuse.As... Continue Reading →
GoodReads ★★ Some Greek poetry in the Little Black Classics collection, and it is relatively modern (as in the author has not been dead for the past two millennia). These are sensual poems. There is a lot of love and maybe more so longing for love. This feeling was portrayed rather well, but the poems... Continue Reading →
GoodReads ★★★★ This was one of my favorite books in the collection, again from a writer - Charlotte Perkins Gilman - whom I had never heard of before. It is a chilling tale of a woman who, by her doctor husband who believes she is hysteric, is prescribed rest. As the time goes on, she... Continue Reading →
GoodReads ★★★★ If you're a fan of this series, it can by no means be a surprise there's these short stories every year to keep us fans happy until the next full length novel arrives. They usually are a lot of fun, as is this one, but I do recommend to read them only when... Continue Reading →
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