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 …
After finishing Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, I decided to begin reading a series of smaller plays, books, and poems from various points in history. I began this "quest" with reading Medea. I have read a handful of Greek plays and various peices of Greek literature in the past, but it was not until researching …
While the books were a gift to my brother and not for me, one of my favorite series in middle school and high school was Chuck Black's The Kingdom Series. While this series is a little different than what most might expect, a few people have asked me to write about a decent, well-grounded novel or …
About a year ago I was introduced to a series of books called The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. They are some hefty books, with thirteen in all, one prequel, and each numbering in the hundreds of pages. Still, if you are one who loves to read, enjoys fantasy, and appreciates good writing, these are …
“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 …
