Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle, 1819 With Thanksgiving and a generally busy time this shorter story was slotted in to my list with a class reading of Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Ilyic for next week. This is a classic short story that I learnt and read growing up so it was nice to revisit it.Continue reading “Rip Van Winkle”
Tag Archives: American Literature
A Perfect Day for Bananafish
J.D Salinger, A Perfect Day for Bananafish, (1948) I am currently reading A Thousand Splendid Suns and I did not have enough time to read the whole book. In interest of continuing a book/short story per week, I read A Perfect Day for Bananafish a couple of weeks ago as it is short but renownedContinue reading “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”
“Phonies”
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951) A classic of American Literature, Catcher in the Rye contains a number of significant social themes. As a commonly assigned book in English classes it was an opportunity for me to see what I had missed. This will be a shorter personal review compared to previous posts.Continue reading ““Phonies””
The Weekly Book Report 