Year: 2015
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The food in Donna Tartt’s book is an interesting mixture of the decadent (roasted lamb, exotic mushrooms, souffles, foie gras) and the hopelessly mundane school cafeteria food and bad coffee. Food helps delineate separate worlds of influence and privilege. As the protagonist, Richard, is largely an outsider, he notices the discrepancies between the displays of…
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In 8th grade when the other group of kids (in the other English class) was reading this book, we read The Outsiders, which is a fine book, but it doesn’t really hold a candle to Maya Angelou. I always felt that by not getting to read this book I was missing out, so I had to…
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Our last day island hopping was spent on the beautiful island of St Kitts. This was truly one of the most amazing places I’ve ever been to, and I hope that more people get the chance to visit this island as well as its sister, Nevis. We spent a large part of the day with…
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I listened to this book on a road trip with my grandparents. Nana and Papa came to visit us in Boise and then I drove back with them to spend more time with family and a girlfriend who flew in from out of town. The book was everything you could want from a trip read–it…
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Dimple of enthralling dimple kindly nominated me for this award. You should really check out her blog. She puts such wonderful enthusiasm and positivity into the world. These awards are really lovely, as they give you the chance to give another blogger a pat on the back and it creates a nice community of bloggers. How…
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In the past I’ve really enjoyed Lauren Willig’s Pink Carnation series, which is about English spies during the French Revolution. She is really skilled at intermixing different time periods and showing how our history influences our present. This book is no different. This stand-alone novel gives insight into the dying world of balls and debutantes…
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We all know that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but it’s extremely difficult not to do just that. Rosema from A Reading Writer (check out her blog!) nominated me for this fun challenge where we see if the prejudice can work in reverse–can you know the contents of a book just by…
Allison Burris 