Book Chase

  Despite being completely mesmerized by Anna Funder's devastating take on the life of George Orwell, I'm still not sure how best to...

As it turns out, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, who was a thirty-one-year-old English teacher at the time, struck literary gold in 1940 with the ...

If you enjoy writers like Stephen King, Neal Gaiman, or Richard Matheson, I have some great news for you. Shirley Jackson, who was an absolu...

Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe series is the first detective series I remember getting myself hooked on. The good news back then (the mid-sixties) w...

I'm starting to wonder if it's possible to develop a case of ADD behavior late in life. I've been finding it difficult to actual...

In another case of "better late than never," I stumbled upon John Green's "Crash Courses on Literature" a couple o...

Published in 1936, John Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle reads like a snapshot from the period in American history during which workers wer...

This is an amazingly well done parody version of Les Misèrables.  When did Sesame Street start doing things like this?  This one was appar...

Jane Austen struggled to get Pride and Prejudice finally into print.   Finding a publisher was not easy (she even considered ...

Moby-Dick Big Read, Chapter 57 Illustration The early chapters of this seven-chapter section of Moby-Dick  are largely devoted to explai...

Ashley Clements is Lizzie Bennet OK, this looks like fun.  Are you ready for a modernized, vlog-style (video log) retelling of Jane Aust...