A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Review)

Title: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Author: Betty Smith Narrator: Kate Burton Publication Year: 1943 Pages: 443 (audio length: 18 hours) Genre: Fiction Source: Free audiobook from AudioSync From the cover: The beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a [...]

Wuthering Heights Wednesday, Fade to Black

Wuthering Heights Wednesday is a read-a-long hosted by Fizzy Thoughts. This week, we’ve read up until the end of chapter 34 … aka the end of the book. Just like the rest of the book, this just really didn’t do it for me. Catherine II actually started to be a little likeable again, but that [...]

Wuthering Heights Wednesday, Take Five

Wuthering Heights Wednesday is a read-a-long hosted by Fizzy Thoughts. This week, we’ve read up until the end of chapter 30 (or … some other chapter number if you’ve got an edition that’s split into two volumes). I didn’t think that I could end up hating these characters any more than I already did, but [...]

Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov’s Little Girl All Over Again (Review)

Title: Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov’s Little Girl All Over Again Author: Graham Vickers Publication Year: 2008 Pages: 256 Genre: Non-Fiction Source: Purchased from Chapters.ca From the cover: In the summer of 1958, a twelve-year-old girl took the world by storm – Lolita was published in the United States. This child, so fresh [...]

Wuthering Heights Wednesday, Take 4

Wuthering Heights Wednesday is a read-a-long hosted by Fizzy Thoughts. This week, we’ve read up until the end of chapter 27 (or … some other chapter number if you’ve got an edition that’s split into two volumes). I’m really a bit surprised that Catherine and Mrs. Dean didn’t figure out from Linton’s behaviour that Heathcliff [...]

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