History & Criticism

Book Review: American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The author looks at different aspects of society, and the people living in it, ruminates on them, and then reexamines…

2 months ago

Audiobook Review: All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks

All About Me! concentrates more on the author’s entertainment portfolio, and all the things which made Melvin Kaminsky into Mel…

5 months ago

Book Review: Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino

Tarantino appreciates movies and has much passion. He’s not a casual movie buff, he writes well & doesn’t hold back…

5 months ago

Book Review: The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman by Shiloh Carroll

This is an academic work, interesting but could be dry. The author spends most of the book examining The Sandman…

7 months ago

Audiobook Review: Syria’s Secret Library by Mike Thomson

Syria's Secret Library by Mike Thomson is an incredible book, and audiobook, showing how people yearn for some sort of…

1 year ago

Book Review: Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes by Rob Wilkins

As someone working closely with Mr. Pratchett, the author witnessed the tragedy, as well as comedy, of working with a…

2 years ago

Book Review: How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

I always wondered what a bored literature professor saw in books things which I either couldn’t, wouldn’t, or simply didn’t…

2 years ago

Book Review: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the first autobiography I read which I would consider to be literature,…

2 years ago

Book Review: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The novel does have its insane parts. A cat with a gun, naked witches, and trickery. From the insanity to…

2 years ago

Book Review: Best. Movie. Year. Ever. by  Brian Raftery

Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen by Brian Raftery examines movies from 1999, a groundbreaking…

5 years ago

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