“Do you believe in the Angel of Death?” Stardate: 6914.6 It’s been ten days since a survey mission returned from Delta Gamma Four (located at the edge of space between the Federation and the Klingon Empire). The Enterprise was investigating the planet as a potential place for a new colony…
Category: Great Books Project
Goosebumps Review #22: Ghost Beach (1994) by R.L. Stine
“I don’t remember how we got to the graveyard…” Ghost Beach is a spooky atmospheric tale enmeshed in the imagery of old cemeteries, remote lighthouses, moss-covered tombstones, damp gray fog, spooky woods, and a dark mysterious coastal windswept cave that seems to hold long-forgotten secrets. Twelve-year-old Jerry Sadler and his…
1997 Pulitzer Prize Review: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
“There once lived a man named Martin Dressler, a shopkeeper’s son, who rose from modest beginnings to a height of dreamlike good fortune” (opening line). Steven Millhauser’s bildungsroman, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and finalist for the 1996 National…
1996 Pulitzer Prize Review: Independence Day by Richard Ford
“In Haddam, summer floats over tree-softened streets like a sweet lotion balm from a careless, languorous god, and the world falls in tune with its own mysterious anthems” (opening line). The first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award in a single year, Richard Ford’s Independence…