In His Own Words

Tag: Literature

  • Not Under 40

    Not Under 40

    Review: I really enjoyed this, and I wasn’t confident that I would when starting out. This was one of the last books published by Willa Cather and it was later in her life, in 1936. So many times I find that the early stuff and the late stuff from any author is not as good… Read more

  • The Enormous Room

    The Enormous Room

    Review: Powerful and deeply personal narrative of the author’s experience in a prison in France during the Great War. So many of the things, feelings and experiences I know intimately from my own jailhouse experience. The prose was so exquisite in places that I grabbed my highlighter to preserve them. Really great reading, I’m sad… Read more

  • The Moor’s Last Sigh

    The Moor’s Last Sigh

    Review: A masterpiece. Sometimes poetic, sometimes profane. A dark journey through four generations of a remarkable family. A glimpse inside the world outside the tourist brochures of India, the world at the top of the skyscrapers and the world at the bottom of the streets. The prose is masterful and elegant, from the gutterspeak to… Read more