Wrap Up Season: Surprisingly Good Books, Part One
In an effort to sum up my year’s reading, I divided up the books I read into four categories: Surprisingly Good, Predictably Good, Left Me With Mixed Feelings, and BAD!!! (there’s also a fifth category...
View ArticleWoman as Financial Vampire
I’m currently reading (and considerably enjoying) Edith Wharton’s Custom Of The Country. But I am also disquieted by the novel. At its core, the story of this novel is a very familiar one. It’s about...
View ArticleFiction isn’t a very good tool for shedding light on how things work
Source: National Geographic I used to think that the purpose of fiction was to make sense of the world. Fiction was a hypothesis about how certain people would act under certain situations. That’s why...
View ArticleStill not quite sure what to think about Dostoyevsky’s THE IDIOT
I love this cover. Isn’t that dude just so adorable with his widdle moustache? I’m about a fourth of the way through Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot. I’ve read a fair amount of Dostoyevsky, but I read almost...
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