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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Torvald, Torvald, You Bastard, I’m Through: Thoughts on A Doll House After Reading it for What I Hope to God is the Very Last Time (by Bethany)
I don’t know what I can say about this play. Of course it’s good – if anything, it’s a model (or THE model) of what a modern play should look like. Of course it’s socially and culturally important. Of course … Continue reading
A Review of Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (by Bethany)
A professor of mine once said that The Great Gatsby is the perfect novel, except for one thing. “Fitzgerald never manages to convince me,” he said, “that the voice telling the story really comes from a stockbroker.” This is a … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Fiction - general, Lorrie Moore, Reviews by Bethany
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The Three Problems with Magic Realism – And Other Thoughts on Salman Rushdie’s Shame (by Bethany)
The first problem with magic realism is that everyone who writes it, no matter where he or she is from and what he or she is writing about it, seems to be trying to write a sentence as good as … Continue reading
Wherein I (finally) share my final thoughts on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (by Jill)
I really thought I would blaze through Jane Eyre this time around, but it took me two weeks, and I was worried I wouldn’t finish by the end of November. I’m sure when I was twelve it took me even … Continue reading
In Which I Give Free Reign to Some Unresolved Anger Issues: Pre-Reading Notes on Ibsen’s A Doll House and Hedda Gabler (by Bethany)
Literature is full of sympathetic jackasses. If you’ve been following the discussion in the comments section of my Jane Eyre review (which I recommend, by the way – it’s much more interesting than the review itself), you’ll know that I … Continue reading
Reader, I Finished It!: Final Thoughts on Jane Eyre (by Bethany)
Well, there has been no major outcry since I admitted on November 30 that I hadn’t finished Jane Eyre yet, so either my readership has forgiven me or the naysayers are right and no one really cares about book blogs … Continue reading
A Review of Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table, With Some Grand, Sweeping Assumptions and A Little Bit of Pseudo-Physics (by Bethany)
Remember man books and woman books? If not, you should probably review the subject here, because I am going to use this model a bit in reviewing Michael Ondaatje’s latest novel, which I categorize as a woman book written by … Continue reading
In Which the Proprietors of Postcards from Purgatory Give Themselves an Early Christmas Gift: Pre-reading notes on Ibsen’s A Doll House and Hedda Gabler. (By Jill)
Here is what I have to say about our December AP English Challenge title: THANK THE LORD IT’S NOT A GIANT NOVEL. It’s a total of 154 pages in a mass-market paperback edition of Heinrik Ibsen’s collected plays. It’s like … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 