Being Emily Rachel Gold Bela Books, Inc. First Edition: June 26, 2012 ISBN 978-1-59493-283-0 Many Young Adult (YA) books have topics that touch on burgeoning sensibilities: morality, depth of emotion, sexuality, responsibility, fears, freedoms and independence. But few of them deal head on with the touchy subjects of gender dysphoria, […]
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman William Morrow/Harper Collins First Edition: June 18, 2013 ISBN 978-0-06-225565-5 It might be easy to mistake Neil Gaiman‘s latest novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, as a children’s book. It’s a slender volume, quickly read, and told […]
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.