Voices From Chernobyl is a devastating and haunting book, filled with the grieving voices of the survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion in 1986. Svetlana Alexievich recorded the words, bitter, angry, or resigned, of the survivors she had access to, and turned it into a book filled with raw grief, horror, and beauty. Through Keith…
“When I was a kid, my aspirations were simple. I wanted a dog,” the memoir begins. Interestingly enough, by the time Michelle Obama is old enough to have two daughters of her own, so do they. Becoming is a memoir by Michelle Robinson Obama, the former First Lady of the United States (often referenced…
Frankenstein is a classic Gothic novel written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, initially as a short horror story to enter in a competition between her husband and friends. Upon the suggestion and encouragement of her husband, Shelley succeeded in reforming her story into the renowned novel Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein, the narrator, seems to be a young…