Posted on August 16, 2019
by E.F. Sunland
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20 Books of Summer 2019: Book 5 I read Wuthering Heights when I was younger, the last time was probably in high school. One scene burned itself into my memory: The moment a grieving Heathcliff calls out to the ghost of his beloved Catherine: He…
Posted on August 7, 2019
by E.F. Sunland
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20 Books of Summer 2019: Book 4 March by Geraldine Brooks gives a personality to Mr. March, the absent father in Little Women, who serves in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. It answers questions about what he did while away from his…
Category: 20 Books of Summer 2019, Book Review, Brooks, GeraldineTags: 20 books of summer 2019, book, Book Review, classic fiction, fiction, geraldine brooks, little women, march, pulitzer, pulitzer prize, reading, summer reading
Posted on March 1, 2019
by E.F. Sunland
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This year is flying! One of my writing projects finally hit critical mass and I’ve been working for hours each night after the day job. Reorganizing and fine-tuning is infinitely more palatable than drafting. It’s still fun, but this schedule is a road to…
Category: Book Review, Reading Ireland Month 2019Tags: anna burns, anne enright, are you somebody, book reviews, books, brooklyn, classic fiction, colm toibin, colum mccann, dubliners, fiction, gulliver's travels, james joyce, jonathan swift, let the great world spin, milkman, modern fiction, nuala o'faolain, oscar wilde, paddy clarke ha ha ha, reading, reading challenge, reading ireland month 2019, roddy doyle, the gathering, the green road, the picture of dorian gray, the woman who walked into doors
Posted on February 10, 2019
by E.F. Sunland
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Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End was included in a long list of sci-fi recommendations. At 224 pages, its pacing is perfect. The alien ships appear at the end of the first chapter and the aliens, the Overlords, swiftly implement changes for the betterment of humanity. A…
Category: Book Review, Clarke, Arthur C.Tags: arthur c. clarke, book, Book Review, childhood's end, classic fiction, classic sci-fi, fiction, reading, sci-fi
Posted on August 14, 2018
by E.F. Sunland
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20 Books of Summer: Book 5 J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise and Concrete Island are both creepily brilliant, but The Drowned World doesn’t meet their high bar. The writing is spectacular, but the characters are too flat for my taste. They’re buried under so much allegory that they lack…
Category: 20 Books of Summer 2018, Ballard, J.G., Book ReviewTags: book, Book Review, classic fiction, fiction, j.g. ballard, reading, summer reading, the drowned world