Posts Tagged ‘William Shakespeare’
New Reads
What’s in a Name? Judging Books by their Titles
You’ve heard that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but what about judging books by their titles? Despite the perennial admonitions from good-natured and tolerant book-lovers, I daresay we all do it all the time: take on...
Lost Classics
Reading Shakespeare Plays
Shakespeare can be intimidating upon first approach because the language is so different from the way we speak now, but the stories told through the plays transcend time. Despite being written during a different era, plays such...
New Reads
Hey Lolita, Hey: Bands Named After Literary Characters
Hey Lolita, hey Hey Lolita, hey I know what the boys like I’m not gonna play These are the lyrics to the refrain of Lana Del Rey’s song “Lolita.” Del Rey has been a polarizing musical figure bringing out...
Awesome Books
I was a Pre-teen Book Nerd in the 90s
And, apparently, that meant loving books written ages before I was born, with a big emphasis on the 80s. I was a huge bookworm and had large, unfortunate glasses that kind of made me look like those cartoons of bookworms, which...
New Reads
Much Ado About Whedon
So, does anything Joss Whedon touches not turn to gold? The man behind the best thing to happen to TV ever (aka Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has brought one of Shakespeare’s best plays, Much Ado About Nothing, back to...
Interesting Books
S**t Happens in the Great American Novel: Scatological Literature
I have a little theory that all of the new contenders for the title of ‘Great American Novel’ are required to include an episode of scatological humor. Think of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom (2010), in which a young man must sift ...
What Should I Read Next
Review: Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
Spitfire American novelist Lionel Shriver isn’t known for her subtlety or political correctness. Instead she cannily skewers the major issues that are at the forefront – or that have been relegated to the collective back of the...
Awesome Books
A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Books on the Financial Crisis
I don’t claim to understand very much about the economics or history of the downturn that began around 2008. What little I do know I largely attribute to the books I’ve read about it, both fiction and nonfiction. Many authors h...
Awesome Books
A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Gender Pioneers
This June marks LGBT Pride Month 2013, the fifth time it has been officially declared so by a U.S. president. June was chosen for this commemorative month to remember the Stonewall riots in New York City in June 1969, which pav...
Bibliotherapy
What to read? (Part 8) Reading Bestsellers
Best books and bestsellers Every reader will, at some point, have to decide how to deal with the inevitable guilt that comes from contemplating everything not yet read: all the canonical classics, all the top sellers, all the b...
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