“Love is deep, a mystery –who wants to understand its every particular?” (143). An homage to Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Cunningham’s fourth novel The Hours (which won a string accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1999) was initially intended…
1998 Pulitzer Prize Review: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach – that it makes no sense.” Seymour “The Swede” Levov is the perfect image of American success. He is tall, strong, muscular, athletic, blond-haired, fair-skinned –an archetypal “Swede” (who is able to pass as though he is not Jewish). In…
Goosebumps Review #23: Return of the Mummy (1994) by R.L. Stine
“Let me… rest in peace!” The sequel to The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, Return of the Mummy is spooky improvement over its predecessor. In this one, Gabe returns to Egypt about a year later (this time flying solo) where he reconnects with his prankster archaeologist uncle Dr. Ben Hassad…
Star Wars Book Review: Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories (2012) by John Jackson Miller
“It means we’re not just a Tribe… we’re a lost Tribe.” The collected stories featured in John Jackson Miller’s The Lost Tribe of the Sith were originally published individually in free ebook format (excluding the final novella entitled “Pandemonium” which was first published in this collection). The nine stories portray…