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Reading: Top Books of 2019
I am looking back on all of the books I read in 2019! I was able to read approximately 25-30 books this year and they did not disappoint. Literature, Short Stories, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction. Here is a list of my top 5 books of the year! (…I shout out several that don’t make the…
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Book Review 3: Sympathetic Imagination
“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley or The Modern Prometheus Short Summary: The classic story of scientist Victor Frankenstein, written by one of the most ingenious female writers, Mary Shelley, in 1818. The book begins in the frame narrative, where a captain (Robert Walton) of a research ship has rescued Victor from the icy weather of the…
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Book Review 2: Un Roi Sans Divertissement
“A King Alone” by Jean Giono “Un Roi sans divertissements est un homme plein de misères” (A King without diversion is a man full of wretchedness) Short Summary: This story, written by Jean Giono and translated from french by Alyson Waters, is a masterfully crafted account of a small village in the French Alps that…
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Book Review 1: Nihilism
“Blood Meridian” by Cormac McCarthy Short Summary: This novel was first published in 1985 by McCarthy, who is arguably one of the greatest American writers of our time. He is the master of bleak landscape, tortured protagonists and scarce dialogue. Blood Meridian exemplifies all of these techniques and shows the raw and uncut side of…
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OSCAR H. WHITE 