Tag: The Great Gatsby
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5 Classics for May
In this series, I recommend five classics each month that remind me of that particular time of the year. You know what they say: April showers bring May flowers. That has certainly been true where I live thus far this month–so many flowers in the garden have begun to bloom and it’s so lovely to…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I’ve (Shamelessly & Proudly) Written In
Happy Tuesday! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) asks us to share our unpopular bookish opinions. However, I thought I would hone in on one unpopular bookish opinion and share ten examples of it instead. Perhaps one of my most controversial book habits is that I often annotate and…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books to Tackle that Reading Slump
Happy Tuesday!! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) asks us to share books that pull us out of reading slumps. We’ve all been there: for some reason the mood just won’t strike us, and any book we open up inevitably seems off-putting. Reading slumps are a bibliophile’s worst nightmare,…
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A Letter to Daisy Buchanan
Dear Daisy, Hi. How are you? How has your day been so far? No, you don’t know me, and I would venture to say that I don’t know you quite as well as I’d like to think I do. I’ve read about your luxurious house and your arrogant, obnoxious husband and even your daughter. Despite…
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THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald // Reread
Recently I read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for the second time; as expected, a multitude of thoughts ensued. When I First Read I first read this classic American novel as assigned reading for my American Literature class when I was a junior in high school. As you can tell by my glowing review, I…
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more books: ¡en español!
For all of you in the United States, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving! I’m really excited about the books I have to show you today, because they’re Spanish translations! I’ve been taking Spanish classes for the past five years in school, but I’m by no means fluent. I read a Spanish translation of…
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QUOTE: The Great Gatsby
“No, Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.” ~page 2 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read my view of The Great Gatsby– one…
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