I confess that I still prefer the silver screen version performed by Humphrey Bogart.
Continue readingThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Classics Club
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
I’m glad I got a chance to read it. There are a couple of caveats, though, that would make me hesitate to recommend reading it to everybody.
Continue readingTen Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly
This is a horror story, made all the worse because it was real.
Continue readingMan’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl
It is possible that this book is the holotype example of a work that can be both horribly depressing and emotionally uplifting at the same time.
Continue readingPeter Pan by J.M. Barrie
This is one of those children’s books that somehow continues to appeal to readers as they age, despite being written for a younger audience.
Continue readingRosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
I don’t always enjoy horror books. They too often either give me nightmares or are so silly that I don’t find them scary at all. Reading one that is engaging without being either too terrifying or too melodramatic has been a real treat.
Continue readingUp from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Ultimately, I’m glad I read it and got the chance to learn a bit more about this remarkable person as well as the history of our country. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about the story of race relations in Jim Crow America.
Continue readingThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
It’s hard to describe the cognitive dissonance I felt when I had to take a break from a particularly depressing description of Kristallnacht, so I switched to NPR – only to find myself listening to a report on the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting.
Continue readingTropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Ew.
Continue readingThe Time Machine by H.G. Wells
I already knew the basic storyline, and that it was one of the earliest popular science fiction stories ever published. But it’s not just a Victorian version of what we now think of as “portal” fiction.
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