Literature
Good sources for book reviews
by Jo Linsdell
You can find different types of book reviews depending on where you look. Most major newspapers and magazines will have at least a few featured books in review each week. Major book stores will also have information in store especially when there is an author appearance. You can also find reviews online. Here is a list of some of the sites worth checking out:
www.nytimes.com- This is the New York Times
vote now: Yes or No - (view results)
Yes
When the aliens invade, or the mad scientists working on a doomsday machine finally manage to tip the
No
by Hugh Mann
Society does not need poets
Nor does it need dancers, painters, sculptors, or whores,
Neither musicians,
American Authors
- Book reviews: Way of the Peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman
- Author analysis: Gertrude Stein
- Book reviews: What to Expect the First Year, by Heidi Murkoff and Lisa Bernstein
- Intimidating women in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
- Margaret Fuller: Life and works
- Is Mary Higgins Clark one of America's best suspense writers?
- Author assessment: Bernard Malamud
International Writers & Literature
- Book reviews: Beach Boy, by Ardashir Vakil
- Literary analysis: The Lady with the Pet Dog, by Anton Chekhov
- Book reviews: What It Takes to be Human, by Marilyn Bowering
- Book reviews: The Trouble With the Pears, An Intimate Portrait of Erzsebet Bathory, by Gia Bathory al Babel
- Literary analysis: The Shack, by William P. Young
- An overview of the major characters in A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
- An overview of the major characters in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Poets & Poetry
- Does poetry matter in the 21st century?

- Poetry analysis: Snowbanks North of the House, by Robert Bly
- Biography: John Milton
- An overview of the poetry of William Blake
- Poetry reviews: On Monsieur's Departure, Elizabeth I
- Nature explored in pastoral and anti-pastoral poetry
- Poetry analysis: Promises Like Pie-Crust, by Christina Rossetti
William Shakespeare
- Literary analysis: Macbeth's 'tomorrow' soliloquy, by William Shakespeare
- The presentation of men and manhood in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Julius Caesar
- Plot summary: All's Well that Ends Well, by William Shakespeare
- Sexuality in The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare
- An overview of the main characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare
- The significance of the grave digger scene in "Hamlet"
- Is Shakespeare's writing incomprehensible?

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, (New York: Scholastic, 1962).
One of the most striking characterizations in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
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I've gone through hundreds of romance novels at one stage in my life where in they were the only genre of books I read. My numerous
"Star cross'd lovers" they definitely are but they were helped into the arms of fate by so many people who frankly should have known
Edward Lear wrote the nonsense song The Owl and the Pussycat for a particular little girl. Her name was Janet Symonds,the daughter
Writing Assignments
- American Authors
- Book reviews: Necessary Evil, by Aaron Baker Cole
- The expression of sexuality in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
- Cultural references to The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
- Robert Pirsig on metaphysics: Lila and Ishmael
- Biography: Lois Duncan
- Book reviews: The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
- Book Revies:Singing with the top down by Debra Williamson
- Audio book reviews: The Whole Truth, by David Baldacci
- British Literature
- Book reviews: The Beach House, by Jane Green
- Literary characters: Mr. Linton, Wuthering Heights
- Literary analysis: The theme of world government in the works of H. G. Wells
- Literary characters: Mr. Green, Wuthering Heights
- Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince and teenage alcoholism
- Plot summary: The Chimes, by Charles Dickens
- Origins of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
- Book reviews: Shardik, by Richard Adams
- Literary characters: Charles Bingley, Pride and Prejudice
- Literary characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice
- Book reviews: The Ministry of Fear, by Graham Greene
- Plot summary: The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens
- Book reviews: Shadow Forest, by Matt Haig
- Book reviews: A Darker Domain, by Val McDermid
- Literary characters: Lockwood, Wuthering Heights
- Literary characters: William Collins, Pride and Prejudice
- Literary characters: Mary Bennet, Pride and Prejudice
- Literary characters: Mr. Bennet, Pride and Prejudice
- Book reviews: Getting to Know the General, by Graham Greene
- Book reviews: The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene
- Book reviews: The Man Within, by Graham Greene
- Plot summary: Dombey and Son, by Charles Dickens
Difference of opinion? Debate now.
- American Authors
- Will J.D. Salinger publish another novel?
- Fantasy & Science Fiction
- Has the fantasy genre become stagnant?
- Was theTwilight novel better than the movie?
- Was the New Moon novel better than the movie?
- William Shakespeare
- Is Shakespeare's writing incomprehensible?
- British Literature
- Should Harry Potter consider Professor Snape more of a friend or a foe?



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