There’s little I can write about John Steinbeck’s East of Eden that no one’s written before, I realize. The classic is about to reach its sixth decade since publication. But that doesn’t mean that you’ve read it. So, hopefully this review will be new to you. The book is about as epic as books get. […]
Category: Fiction Book Reviews
Fascinating Review of Wuthering Heights – Will People Love It?
This review of Wuthering Heights is about a classic work of literature from Great Britain in the 1800s. It is the sole novel of author Emily Brontë before her early death. Wuthering Heights is the story of two families, the Lintons and the Earnshaws, plus an orphan named Heathcliff. I first read the book in […]
After the Fog – Rob’s Review
The novel After the Fog caught my interest because it’s a rarity—a novel featuring environmental history. Stories of this type are badly underrepresented in literature. As I read, things got even better, subject-wise. The novel turned out to be about a working-class, ethnic family in 1948 Donora, Pennsylvania. This is another type of story badly […]
Reviewing Etched in Starlight, by Rosie Chapel
Etched in Starlight is a novel featuring the converging historical paths of two people of the first century CE. One is a Roman legionnaire, Maxentius, the other a Jewish physician named Hannah. Their fates collide in 66 CE when Jewish rebels attack the Roman fortress of Masada to challenge Rome’s occupation of Judea. Maxentius is […]
Pumblechook and Great Expectations
Great Expectations is a very old book and is not, strictly speaking, historical fiction. But it’s a classic, and it has a character named Pumblechook in it, and I’ll write about classics with characters named Pumblechook if I want to. Besides that, I decided it wouldn’t hurt to read how a classic author like Charles […]
Review of The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Sarah Penner’s new book The Lost Apothecary is very new, appearing just last month. It has received many favorable reviews from the public and is the debut novel from Penner. I picked it up hoping I’d find a new author I enjoy. After finishing, I’m thinking that all the people who gave The Lost Apothecary […]