Category Archives: Adult

Men in the Sun, by Ghassan Kanafani

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Thistle

My sister recommended three novellas by Ghassan Kanafani, and so I read all three. Men in the Sun was the second I read. This is the story of three desperate men from Palestine trying to make their way to Kuwait … Continue reading →

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All That’s Left To You, by Ghassan Kanafani

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Thistle

My sister recommended three novellas by Ghassan Kanafani, and so I read all three. This was my sister’s favorite of the three, so I read it first. It follows several different stories, offset by type (bold, italics, normal) to differentiate … Continue reading →

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Harry Potter: Film Wizardry, by Brian Sibley

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Thistle

I have never been as big a fan of the Harry Potter movies as I am of the books, but I do enjoy the movies. I own the first six, and there are some I like better than others. When … Continue reading →

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Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Thistle

“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be a heroine.” So goes the first line of Austen’s semi-satire of the old Gothic novel tradition. We follow Catherine as she goes … Continue reading →

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If Not, Winter, by Sappho

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Thistle

If Not, Winter is a collection of all the fragments of poetry that remain from Sappho’s great body of work. Sappho was a singer and songwriter on the island of Lesbos, a woman who explored love with both men and … Continue reading →

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Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches, by Virginia Woolf

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Thistle

This is an interesting little book that I picked up solely because I love Virginia Woolf and thought it would be fun to read through some of her writing sketches. I didn’t realize that instead it would be extracts from … Continue reading →

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The Hour Before the Dawn, by William Somerset Maugham

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Thistle

So I really thought this book was going to be the end of my reading rut. I haven’t read a book I loved loved loved since The Tapestry of Love back in early October, and when I started this lesser-known … Continue reading →

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Illyria, by Elizabeth Hand

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Thistle

The Tierney family all descended from a theatre tradition, though for several generations, that tradition has been shunned. The two youngest cousins, Rogan and Maddy, both have stage inclinations though, the former to singing, the latter to acting. They are … Continue reading →

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Protected: Claudine at School, by Colette

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Thistle

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The Alchemist (graphic novel), by Paulo Coelho

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Thistle

I read The Alchemist back in March of 2009. Despite the fact that the book bordered the edge of something I wouldn’t normally like, I enjoyed the book. It was true enough to itself to not step over the line … Continue reading →

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