Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is a fantasy tale about a science procedure on a lab rat and a man.
The story is written as a diary by a mentally disabled man named Charlie. He and a lab rat, Algernon, have an experimental procedure done to cause their intelligence to skyrocket. This seems like a breakthrough in science, and maybe it is! But what it means is not necessarily what anyone had planned.
Read MoreMoby Dick! The great behemoth of stories. If you’ve read this one, then you’re probably at the cool classic’s book club table. This book came to me from my father, and for a long time I was reluctant to read it for one excuse or another: it’s too long, there are whales in it, etc. etc. But when I finally got around to consuming those wonderful pages, I was enthralled--enchanted.
Read MoreThis book is depicted in eight different parts, with more than a dozen characters. For those of you who find challenge in a book-length, then look no further! Anna Karenina is over a whopping 800 pages (depending on the translation) and typically contained into two volumes.
Read MoreFor this week, I would like to talk about “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” a semi-autobiographical story published in 1943 by Betty Smith. Betty focuses on a young impoverished girl Francine Nolan and her family living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, during the first two decades of the 20th century.
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