The Sylvanian Family
The image of the Sylvanian family (or Calico Critters are they’re now called) rose to my mind as I began reading the first few chapters of Betty Friedan’s The F...
Category: Canada Diaries
The House, the Room, and the Soul
This has been my final fall semester at Rhodes College and I can confidently say that it was filled from top to bottom with Edith Wharton. I read House of Mirth...
Book Review: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Like a series of party scenes that once bloomed bright in the 1920s east coast, The Great Gatsby is like a festivity in itself—one long-drawn summer of humid he...