“Rabbit basks above that old remembered world, rich, at rest” –Rabbit is Rich (epigraph). At long last, one of the more miserable, repulsive figures in all of American literature is finally put to “rest.” The fourth and mercifully final novel in John Updike’s Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom series, Rabbit at Rest…
Category: Great Books Project
1990 Pulitzer Prize Review: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
“It was a Saturday afternoon on La Salle Street, years and years go when I was a little kid, and around three o’clock Mrs. Shannon, the heavy Irish woman in her perpetually soup-stained dress, opened her back window and shouted into the courtyard, ‘Hey, Cesar, yoo-hoo, I think you’re on…
Hardy Boys Review #3: The Secret of the Old Mill (1927) by Franklin W. Dixon
“With the Hardy boys on their tail, those Counterfeiters won’t have a chance!” (36) The Hardy Boys track down a counterfeiting ring in Bayport! Originally written in 1927 by Franklin W. Dixon (the nom de plume of Leslie McFarlane) and later rewritten in 1962 by Alistair Hunter, the third book…
Goosebumps Review #7: Night of the Living Dummy (1993) by R.L. Stine
“I’m not a dream. I’m a nightmare!” Kris and Lindy Powell are nearly identical twins, aside from their hairstyles. They are fairly typical twelve-year-old kids: they have a black dog named “Barky,” Kris collects jewelry, her friend is a boy named Cody Matthews, and she has a crush on Robby…