Category: Entertainment Blogs
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The Scarlet Letter
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On March 16, 1850, The Scarlet Letter was born. However, it did not come into the world as a normal child, or even a normal book of its time. Nathaniel Hawthorne originally planned The Scarlet Letter to be a novelette and part of a collection of stories, but his publisher,…
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Books We Love – Week 3
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The Rebel Author: Albert Camus Genre: Sociology Vive la révolution? In Albert Camus’s book-length, sociological essay, he looks at the development of rebellion and revolution, particularly in Western Europe. Originally written in French, the novel explores the motivation for revolution based on basic human rejection of normative justice and the…
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Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison!
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Also known as Chloe Anthony Wofford, Toni Morrison is a novelist, editor, playwright, and professor. From a working-class family, she is the second of four children. After finding her love for literature at a young age, she continued to study English at both Howard and Cornell University and has a…
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Books We Love – Week Two
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The Road Author: Cormac McCarthy Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Follow the journey of a father and son through post-apocalyptic America. The world is still, the falling snow is gray, and their destination is the coast to survive the winter. They have few possessions, barely enough to fill a supermarket shopping cart.…
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Judy Blume
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Judy Blume was born two days before Valentine’s Day in 1938 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She was the second child of her parents, Rudolph and Esther Sussman. Blume loved to read as a child, and she was always imagining new stories. She went to an all-girls’ high school, and later…