Month: October 2014
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scarier than Halloween.
Today is the end of the first quarter of school, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s much scarier than Halloween. Projects, exams, and deadlines, oh my! This is basically how I feel. It’s getting more and more difficult to find time to read and write posts, so I apologize if things are…
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QUOTE: Ransom Riggs
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.” ~ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs What interesting, funny, or awesome quotes have you discovered recently? Let me know in the comments section below! Yours, HOLLY
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on attending a college literature class.
Recently I had the opportunity to attend a literature class at a college I’m applying to soon. The class was an advanced literature class that lasted two hours and was about Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. When I heard that I would be attending this particular class for a day I realized that I had…
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Book Review: MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN
Author: Ransom Riggs Number of Pages: 352 Publisher: Quirk Release Date: January 1, 2011 “A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific…
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Book Review: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
Author: Jonathan Swift Number of Pages: 306 Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: 1726 “Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters – with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and the brutish Yahoos…
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QUOTE: Toni Morrison
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” ~ Beloved by Toni Morrison This quote is just one of the many gems sprinkled throughout Toni Morrison’s haunting novel Beloved. If you enjoy historical fiction, ghost stories, or compelling books in general then I highly recommend it! What quotes have you discovered recently? Let me know in the comments section…
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Book Review: BELOVED
Author: Toni Morrison Number of Pages: 324 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: 1987 “Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free.…
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Book Review: HOW TO READ LITERATURE LIKE A PROFESSOR
Author: Thomas C. Foster Number of Pages: 314 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: January 1, 2003 “What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the…
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