Category Archives: Reading
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
I don’t read that many romance books and when I do, they’re the sort of book that I’ll read straight through very quickly and then pick up a different book. I read the book “Dear John” by Nicholas Sparks back earlier in the year sometime and it really touched me, in a personal way. On [...]
Book Queue
Since I started working, life seems to go in busy and not busy spurts. The last month and a bit has been a busy spurt, yet I’ve still been acquiring books. My book club is reading “The Solitude of Prime Numbers” by Paolo Giordano for our meeting on Monday, so I ordered that off Amazon [...]
Amélie Nothomb and the autobiographical nature of her novels
The fourth novel that I read for my Extreme Contemporary French Literature class this past fall term was by a Belgian author, Amélie Nothomb, Robert des noms propres. This novel was quite short and read like a children’s novel, almost. That was one of the intriguing aspects about it – it’s in a way the [...]
Extreme Contemporary French Literature: Dora Bruder
One of the courses that I am taking this term is covers the French novel in the last decade, i.e. since 1997. After deciding to recommend the English version of the book we are currently studying to a friend, I decided to write a discussion of the first two books of the course. Keep in [...]
Delivering Happiness