by Michael Lesiuk | Apr 24, 2012 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
Simon Prebble’s reading of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is quite good. I’ve been listening to it on my runs and while I’m doing mindless tasks like making dinner or cleaning. The Literary Theory course by Paul Fry from...
by Michael Lesiuk | Mar 5, 2011 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
(Note that at the time of writing this post, only four books have been released in what is expected to be a seven-book series. Also note that there are some spoilers towards the end of this post, which I’ve indicated with a rather prominent warning.) One of the...
by Michael Lesiuk | Jan 19, 2010 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
I’m studying Ivanhoe right now, and I came across some interesting articles about the book and its connection to a real-life trial by combat… in 1817. So I thought I would blog about the details, because though I think it is really interesting it will...
by Michael Lesiuk | Dec 5, 2009 | Fiction/Lit/Movies, Workflow
I started a post comparing the writing habits of Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Ernest Hemingway, but I found that for each writer the most interesting theme about their writing was unique to them. Trollope is a machine. Dickens is concerned primarily with his...
by Michael Lesiuk | Nov 6, 2009 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
Back in high school, one of my English teachers gave us “Teddy” by J.D. Salinger to read and then talk about in class, and at the end of the term he put Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” on the final exam. (And on a high school...