I recently read The Count of Montecristo by Dumas for the first time. I have read The Three Musketeers twice, the second time less than a year ago, and ever since I have been wanting to crack this other beloved ‘classic.’ In The Three Musketeers I was struck by how Dumas had single-handedly invented a [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Good Books’
August 3, 2008
Some Notes on the ‘Love’ in The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The University of Texas Arlington First Year Reading Experience Program, known as the OneBook Program, has selected The History of Love by Nicole Krauss as the book for 2008-2009. As faculty co-chair of OneBook I’ve had a lot of fun assisting in the development of study guides and such materials to help students as they [...]
March 28, 2007
Credit Where Credit is Due Please: Cormac McCarthy and the Oprah Book Club
Oprah has picked Cormac McCarthy’s beautiful and haunting The Road for her book club. I was over at Amazon.com looking at the message board for the new paperback edition of The Road and was struck by some posts attacking Oprah and the intelligence of her viewers. This is very sad. Oprah has promoted the [...]
February 28, 2007
The Sentimental Education (1869) by Gustave Flaubert
For MODL 5304, I had the pleasure of assigning and rereading Flaubert’s The Sentimental Education (1869), which I had read as an undergraduate at the University of California Santa Cruz in the late eighties or early nineties. I did not remember the novel in much detail but it helped me become passionate about nineteenth-century studies, [...]
