Category: short classics project
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Book Review: A Long Way From Chicago
Author: Richard Peck Rating: 4/5 stars Book Blurb: Each summer Joey and his sister, Mary Alice two city slickers from Chicago visit Grandma Dowdel’s seemingly sleepy Illinois town. Soon enough, they find that it’s far from sleepy, and Grandma is far from your typical grandmother. From seeing their first corpse (and he isn’t resting easy) to helping…
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Project Updates – August 2022
As August comes to a close, I wanted to give some updates on the projects I am working on: For my Short Classics Project I read 4 books/plays in August: The winner I would have to say is The Misanthrope which was clever and surprisingly relevant. And it made me laugh at times! The others…
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Book Review: A Doll’s House
Author: Henrik Ibsen Rating: 3/5 stars Book Blurb: A Doll’s House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on the stage. The play ushered in a new social era and “exploded like a bomb into contemporary life”. This was sad. You…
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Friday Reads – 8/12/22
Happy Friday! These are the books I am currently reading or plan to read into the next week. I honestly don’t know how much reading I will get done this weekend, we have an anniversary party on Saturday and plan on visiting my mother-in-law on Sunday to watch a religious convention together. Babel is such…
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Short Classics Project – Book Review: Uncle Vanya
Author: Anton Chekov Rating: 3/5 stars Book Blurb: First produced by the Moscow Art Theater in 1899, Uncle Vanya is one of Chekhov’s greatest plays and a staple of the theatrical repertoire. Both structurally and psychologically compact, it is among the most expressive of the Russian playwright’s dramatic works.Set on an estate in nineteenth-century Russia, this deeply…
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Short Classics Project – Book Review: The Red Badge of Courage
Author: Stephen Crane Rating: 3/5 stars Book Blurb: This classic novel of the American Civil War evokes the horrors of battle and the psychology of fear as it recounts the experience of a young, untried Union Army volunteer. Henry Fleming longs to prove himself by winning the “red badge beyond all doubt”. But when he…
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Short Classics Project: Book Review – The Misanthrope
Author: Molière Rating: 5/5 stars Book Blurb: Molière understood profoundly what makes us noble, pathetic, outrageous and funny, and in his splendid comedies satirized human folly to perfection. One of the best of his plays — and one of the greatest of all comedies — is The Misanthrope, first performed in 1666, when the King of…
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