Roof Beam Reader
Adam Burgess
Category: Modernism
“A Modern March” Reading Event
I’ve been waiting for this! Allie (A Literary Odyssey) is hosting a Modernist Literature event this March, and I’ve been saving two books specifically for it. Now, the announcement post is up and I can officially “plan” my reading. I will absolutely get through… Continue Reading ““A Modern March” Reading Event”
Review: Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 43 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays is included in Time magazine’s “100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005.”… Continue Reading “Review: Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion”
Review: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 42 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting and believable. The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is considered to be (by its narrator) “the saddest story” ever told. The implication… Continue Reading “Review: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford”
Review: Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 40 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting and believable. Poor Tommy Wilhelm. Lost, jobless, loveless, and completely devoid of pride or any self-confidence. This is Tommy’s day of reckoning. When the novella… Continue Reading “Review: Seize the Day by Saul Bellow”
Review: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 37 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) Nick Carraway, our “honest” narrator, is a small-town, Midwestern boy who once spent some time in New York… Continue Reading “Review: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald”
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