Category: Book Reviews

I am a lit geek, admittedly so; more particularly, I enjoy reading about how to read literature. Which is why I read books like this one by Canadian Lutheran cleric and literary theorist Northrop Frye. I’m a real sucker for anything that will advance the discussion of literary typology and mythic archetypes. When I saw that a number of the… Read more →

Before 2008 I didn’t know much about Tina Fey. I only watched SNL intermittently before that time and watch less of it now. I knew her face from Weekend Update, and knew she was involved in 30 Rock, but had only seen bits and pieces of the show. Yes, I was one of those people who discovered her through her… Read more →

Technology cannot be ignored, and those that attempt to slow the progress being made are condemning themselves to oblivion as well as (more importantly) bankruptcy. Creativity, Doctorow argues, must be free-as-in-freedom; the giant corporations and artists who hunt for and slap lawsuits against any and all violations of their copyrights (real or imagined) kill more than just their fanbase, whom… Read more →

After waiting what can only be described as an interminable amount of time for the second two books in The Hunger Games trilogy to come in for me at the library, it came to pass in the fullness of time that they finally arrived and I blazed through them in literally four days, utterly lost to the world beyond their… Read more →

There have only been a few works on the morality of the Potter books, and it remains an underdeveloped area of lit criticism of the books. Most of the moral discussions have been limited to single essays within published symposiums. The Values of Harry Potter is only one of two full-length books devoted to morality of the Potter novels. The… Read more →