Category: Literary Escapes
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_I’ll Walk Alone_
_I’ll Walk Alone_ by Mary Higgins Clark It may be time for me to give up these books…or maybe I should just be glad I have read almost all Clark’s books and others like it so that I do not feel a need to read them all the time. I think last time I read…
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_Catch-22_
_Catch-22_ by Joseph Heller Although I know that many people read this book in high school or early college days, it was never on my reading list. So, over the years I would read or hear references to characters or phrases from the novel along with the title itself being used commonly in literary/academic/colloquial conversations,…
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_10th Anniversary_
_10th Anniversary_ by James Patterson Vacation traveling means that I read easy-no-brainer books so that I can fall asleep or at least make the time pass quickly while waiting at an airport or on the plane (if I am not asleep by the time the plane takes off!). So, as I embarked on my…
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_Someone Knows My Name_
_Someone Knows My Name_ by Lawrence Hill A while back when I wasn’t sure what book to read next, my BFF suggested this title to me. So, I downloaded it and though I took a bit of time (for me anyway) to get through it, it was not from a lack of interest. 🙂…
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_Love In the Time of Cholera_
_Love In the Time of Cholera_ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez This book has been talked about and put on the top of ‘must-read’ lists since it came out. Marquez has been touted as a beautiful and amazing writer. Due to all this fuss, I have generally avoided reading his works. (Yes, I have some issues….)…
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_Savage Inequalities_
_Savage Inequalities_ by Jonathan Kozol Back when I was in grad school, I heard a lot of talk about the works for Jonathan Kozol. He had also just come out with another book at that time, but as I didn’t have time to do much pleasure reading at the time, I just kept the author’s…
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_Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging_
_Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging_ by Eleana J Kim I found this title off of another adoptee’s blog who had written about it and said that it was the best intellectual presentation of the situation for the first few decades of adoptees who have now grown up and are raising…
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_Genie: A Scientific Tragedy_
_Genie: A Scientific Tragedy_ by Russ Rymer Back in my graduate school days, the story of Genie was often talked about in relation to language acquisition. There are different theories as to the ability to learn language properly according to inherit skills, age of development and other outside factors. The debate on this topic continues…
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_Where Men Win Glory_
_Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman_ by Jon Krakauer I have realized that it is possible that I am reading to avoid the myriad of other tasks that I should be doing to be more productive towards completing research and professional goals. However, I also consider reading a useful and productive…
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_Into the Wild_
_Into the Wild_ by Jon Krakauer After reading Jon Krakauer’s _Under the Banner of Heaven_, I thought I’d try another one of his recommended novels. This 2007 novel, _Into the Wild_ follows the story of Chris McCandless who walks away from his family, possessions, and way of life in hopes of finding his ideal future. With…
