Beloved by people who relish an insightful political commentary as well as those who know scarcely of governmental inner workings, 1984, arguably Orwell’s greatest work, serves as a grave warning and an acutely penned treatise regarding the human condition. This masterful prose chronicles the causes and depicts the effects of […]
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Book Review: True Grit by Charles Portis
“People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when […]
Review: The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
The year is 1967. Holling Hoodhood enters seventh grade fearing the worst. On Wednesday afternoons, half of his class attends Hebrew school while the other half go to Catechism class, leaving him (the only Protestant) alone with his homeroom teacher, Mrs. Baker. Things wouldn’t be so bad […]