Book Reviews

I'm not trying to be contrarian, but with all the fanfare surrounding Netflix's recent adaptation of Frankenstein , I can't help but think of the book's far more readable cousin, Dracula . In the A-list annals of Halloween costumes, the two are often paired together, but the reading experience of each is vastly different. Frankenstein is slow and cerebral. You zone out, and 20 pages later, the protagonist is still describing the landscape. Dracula , on the other hand, is a p

Ivanhoe really does feature everything you could want in an English adventure story: sword-fights, Robin Hood, Richard the Lionheart, damsels in distress, knights, heroes, scoundrels, and plenty of derring-do.

I recently drove from Texas to Minnesota, and decided it was high time I dive into some classic literature that's long haunted my TBR pile: specifically, anything by Sir Walter Scott.

It's no secret that some summer reading books are better than others. Over the years, I've developed a few hard-and-fast rules to sort...

The moment I began annotating classic novels, people started asking, "Why don't you do Shakespeare?" "It's been done!" I'd reply.

Did you know it's a Christmas tradition in Iceland to exchange books for Christmas? To be specific, these books are exchanged on,...

'Great American novel' or 'worst school book ever'? Having recently annotated 'The Great Gatsby' for Vocabbett Classics, I'm here to say...

This book has been in the making for 10+ years, if not 3,000. In a way, you could say The Iliad is my odyssey!

I can't be the only person who grew up thinking "good books" and "school books" were mutually exclusive categories. Now that I'm older...