Dumb at Literature

Dumb at Literature

In high school and college, I used to feel so stupid studying literature because I never saw the imagery within it on my own.  When I read the assigned books, I would usually think, ‘that was a pretty good book’, but that was where it ended for...
Book Review: Babbitt

Book Review: Babbitt

by: Sinclair Lewis Babbit was written in the 1920s by Sinclair Lewis who was a socialist.  Normally, a socialist’s commentary on American culture from the 1920s wouldn’t interest me, but this book is part of the literature curriculum of a Catholic...
Book Review: Utopia

Book Review: Utopia

by Thomas More             I wasn’t sure what to expect when reading this book.  I’d read it was a satire and then the guy who wrote the introduction to the version I was reading insisted it wasn’t...