Category: Literary Escapes
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_Fifty Shades of Grey_ by EL James
_Fifty Shades of Grey_ by EL James It might concern me that a novel like this is on the top of New York Times bestseller’s list, or it might concern me more that people are flocking to read this novel over other literary works. However, literature always is a reflection of the times, it seems…
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_Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking_ by Susan Cain
_Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking_ by Susan Cain When I am running on the treadmill I generally read since I’m not really in to watching TV and now it’s too hot to even think about going outside – not that I would anyway…. A while back, I saw…
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_Steve Jobs_ by Walter Isaacson
_Steve Jobs_ by Walter Isaacson Like the man, I found the varied reactions of people to the book to be passionate. The few people to whom I mentioned that I was reading this book gave me responses such as “He was such an asshole that I couldn’t keep reading it,” or “He focused too much…
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_1Q84_ by Haruki Murakami
_1Q84_ by Haruki Murakami I am not actually sure what prompted me to purchase this book on my iPhone Kindle, but when I was searching for something to read in the future, this title kept coming up. So, I figured I would give it a try. Although Murakami is quite popular, I have only managed…
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_Middlemarch_ by George Eliot
_Middlemarch_ by George Eliot I can’t even remember when I started reading this on my iPad as a distraction from my academic reading. The synopsis of the story is better written here, than I could do it justice. It wasn’t one my top novels. It was similar in style to a Jane Austen novel and…
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_Letters to a Young Teacher_
_Letters to a Young Teacher_ by Jonathan Kozol I don’t really know if this counts as pleasure reading, but most of my reading lately consists of journal articles or primary sources for my dissertation topic. However, as I was perusing our library at ZU, I found this book. Since I had read _Savage Inequalities_ by…
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_Hello Kitty Must Die_
_Hello Kitty Must Die_ by Angela S Choi So, the cliche saying of “Don’t judge a book by its cover” could also apply to book titles. However, when I was searching for something new to read on my iPad Kindle, I came across this title a few times. I could relate because the sickening expansion…
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_Now You See Her_
_Now You See Her_ by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge While I was hesitant to read another Patterson book so soon after my last one, I was looking for a quick read for the plane rides on my way back home. This one was a quick read, which I finished in one day due to…
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_The Plague_
_The Plague_ by Albert Camus Albert Camus (pronounced ca-moo and not cay-mus as I would like to say it) is an interesting author from Algeria. He wrote _The Stranger_ (published 1946), which I read quite a few years ago after my college friends gave it to me as a gift. I hadn’t heard of him…
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_Three Cups of Deceit_
_Three Cups of Deceit_ by Jon Krakauer Upon sharing with some colleagues that I had really enjoyed reading Greg Mortenson’s _Three Cups of Tea_ last summer, someone said that he thought that Mortenson had been ratted out as having made up some of his story. I hadn’t heard this before, but it bothered me because…
