A Ghost Story by David Lowery Fair warning, if you haven’t actually watched the movie, walk away now because I’m about to spoil the whole thing. Otherwise, read on. Just don’t get peeved with me … you’ve been given ample time to make a substantial change in your trajectory. A […]
The Sleepwalkers J. Gabriel Gates HCI Teens ISBN-13: 978-0757315886 Release date: October 3, 2011 ▬ᴥ▬ This might be the most honest book review I’ve ever written. But you’ll see why I feel my candor is warranted in just a minute. First, the tough stuff: I laughed. I cried. I cursed […]
Dark Parties Sara Grant Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN-13: 978-0316085946 ▬ᴥ▬ Dark Parties is dystopian YA set in a world that may or may not be our Earth. I won’t hazard a guess because it’s sort of irrelevant either way. The main character, Neva, is part of a […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.