Category Archives: Bethany’s Homework

Thoughts on A.H. Jones’ Constantine and the Conversion of Europe (by Bethany)

Posted on February 8, 2015 by lfpbe

About 75 pages of this book were assigned for one of the MOOC’s I’m taking, and since I’m a bit of an overachiever (at least in College Education 2.0 I’m an overachiever; in the first go-round not so much), I … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Wise Blood (by Bethany)

Posted on January 18, 2015 by lfpbe

Flannery O’Connor died of lupus when she was thirty-nine, and here I two days after my thirty-ninth birthday, trying to channel her spirit enough to make some sense of Wise Blood. Several of O’Connor’s stories – “Good Country People,” “A … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Richard Wright’s Black Boy (by Bethany)

Posted on December 20, 2014 by lfpbe

Over the last month or so I have sent myself back to school, thanks to the wonders of the internet and the Yale Open Courses program. If you’re the type (like me) who sometimes misses the academic atmosphere of college … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Bethany's Homework, Books Whose Endings are Made Boring by Communism, Fiction - general, Fiction - literary, Nonfiction - General, Nonfiction - Memoir/Biography, Reviews by Bethany, Richard Wright | 2 Comments

Thoughts on Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings

Posted on March 15, 2014 by lfpbe

If this were 2012 or 2013, I would not be writing a review of this book. Back then, I was reading at a ridiculously rapid pace and only reviewing between a half and three quarters of what I read. I … Continue reading →

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A Review of Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock

Posted on February 9, 2014 by lfpbe

I bought a copy of The View from Castle Rock when it was first published in 2006, and I read about half of it before putting it aside. I just didn’t like it – and I was well aware that … Continue reading →

Posted in Alice Munro, Authors, Bethany's Homework, Fiction - general, Fiction - Historical, Fiction - literary, Fiction - Short Stories, Nonfiction - Essays, Nonfiction - General, Nonfiction - Memoir/Biography, Reviews by Bethany | 2 Comments

A Review (or Sort of a Pre-Review, Really) of Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks’ American Short Story Masterpieces

Posted on February 7, 2014 by lfpbe

It’s hard to review a collection of short stories – in fact, I don’t think I’ve reviewed a single one since we started this blog in May of 2012. I’ve read several and wanted to review them, but where would … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter (by Bethany)

Posted on December 28, 2013 by lfpbe

The Optimist’s Daughter is one of the books that I am assigned to read for a workshop I’m taking in February. I can’t quite believe I’m about to admit this on the internet, but I had never read Eudora Welty … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Bethany's Homework, Eudora Welty, Fiction - general, Fiction - Important Award Winners, Fiction - literary, Reviews by Bethany | 7 Comments