Since you are about to begin reading a rather unique review on Italo Calvino's If on a winters night a traveler, I will begin with this disclaimer: I am not a fan of the postmodernist movement. In fact, I particularly dislike most of what came of this time, including works from art and music. However, there …
“You can’t make an omelet without cracking a few eggs (Duranty).” These words, quoted by many, state quite calmly that you cannot have success without some loss along the way. Or to put it in communistic morphed socialist terms, “you can’t have progress without destroying the lives of many people, mostly our own.” It is …
I was raised in a rather political home, and conservative Christian at that. Traditional values, freedom, responsibility, et cetera... that sort of upbringing. Thus, I naturally have a taste for political, and sometimes utopian and dystopian, novels. For one, because I am a nerd who is constantly reading and following politics, scientific discoveries, and so …
Madelyn Rose Craig 