Proust Read-Along: The Swann and Gatsby Foil
“He knew perfectly well as a general truth that human life is full of contrasts…” Swann’s Way, P. 510 While …
Category Archives: literature
The Great Gatsby (2013): Movie Review
In just 172 pages, F. Scott Fitzgerald has captured the zeitgeist of the Jazz Age, and told the stirring story …
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: A Tribute to Rootlessness
On April 3, one day before Roger Ebert died, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala passed away from illness at the age of 85. …
Proust Read-Along: Swann’s Way Part One, Combray
Reading these first 264 pages of Proust conjures up some of my own memories… I was sitting in a graduate …
Diary of a Country Priest: An Easter Meditation
Last year around this time, I wrote about the book The Diary of A Country Priest by French author Georges …
Let’s Spring to Proust
Here we are, almost spring. According to my 2013 Read-Along plan, it’s time for Proust: In Search of Lost Time, …
Upcoming Book to Movie Adaptations
2012 has been a great year for movie adaptations based on or loosely tied to books. Argo, Beast of the …
Soliloquy of a Book Hoarder
To read, or not to read, that is not the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer slings …
Reading the Season: Surprised by Joy
If Shakespeare and Hamlet could ever meet, it must be Shakespeare’s doing. Shakespeare could, in principle, make himself appear as …
Read-Along 2013: Bonhoeffer and Proust
CLICK HERE to Bonhoeffer Read-Along Part 2 Wrap-Up: Ch. 19 – 31 CLICK HERE to Bonhoeffer Read-Along Part 1: Ch. …
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
And with this book, I declare all my reading challenges for 2012 completed! Graham Greene Reading Challenge 2012 Travels with …
Life of Pi (2012): The Magical 3D Experience
Movies this fall is a bumper crop of film adaptations from literary sources. Two belong to the same genre of …
