by applewooddollhospital | Aug 14, 2024 | Blog, Book Reviews
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...
by applewooddollhospital | Jul 28, 2024 | Blog, Book Reviews
by Mary Shelley This was another book on Joseph Pearce’s “100 Works of Literature Every Catholic Should Read” list. In the beginning, it felt a bit melodramatic, particularly the male characters and especially Victor Frankenstein. I kept...
by applewooddollhospital | Feb 20, 2024 | Blog, Book Reviews
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...
by applewooddollhospital | Jun 15, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews
by Kenneth Graham For the kids, this started a bit slow. As an adult who loves beautiful language, I loved it from the first word. This book followed the adventures of Rat,...
by applewooddollhospital | Apr 11, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews
by GK Chesterton This was a near perfect biography. If I were Charles Dickens, I would have been waiting for Chesterton at the gates of heaven to hug the stuffing out of him for writing...
