Medical Fiction
12/3/2018 to 11/27/2019
I started reading the book but never got a chance to finish it.
Martin Arrowsmith, the protagonist of the novel, was born and brought up in the small midwestern town of Elk Mills, where he developed an interest in science and spent his free hours reading through Gray's Anatomy and other books in the town's doctor's office, Doc Vickerson.
Dark Comedy
4/9/2019 to 7/13/2019
I started reading the book but never got a chance to finish it.
Lambert Strether arrives in Chester, England, an American from Woollett, Massachusetts. Strether initially assumes that Sarah is as charmed by the Parisian life of Chad as it was by Strether. But then, Sarah encounters Strether face to face, reiterating the negative views of the situation of Mrs. Newsome.
Comedy-Drama
5/30/2019 to 7/21/2019
I started reading the book but never got a chance to finish it.
Ben reads a newspaper in a basement with a refrigerator and furniture, while Gus fixes his shoelaces. Near the end of the story, all of a sudden at the door, Ben scores his pistol and Gus stumbles in, vulnerably stripped of some of his clothes and gun. He looks up at Ben, and through a long silence, they smile at each other.
Tragedy
3/26/2019 to 6/20/2019
I started reading the book but never got a chance to finish it.
Agamemnon starts with a Watchman on obligation on the roof of the palace at Argos, ready for a sign announcing the fall of Troy to the Greek armies. They surmount the regime, and the Chorus broadcasts that Clytemnestra's son Orestes will return from exile to avenge his father.
Drama
2/6/2019 to 9/23/2019
I started reading the book but never got a chance to finish it.
August Wilson was born poor into a family of seven in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since the town had intense racism, he left school at age sixteen, later educating himself independently at the city library. Wilson comes back and asks Wining Boy if he is ready to catch the train back south. Wilson says goodbye to his sister, and Berniece gives thanks.
Dystopian Fiction & Science Fiction
9/3/2019 to 12/18/2019
I started reading the book but never got a chance to finish it.
Winston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. His spirit broken, Winston is released to the outside world. He meets Julia but no longer feels anything for her. He has accepted the Party entirely and has learned to love Big Brother.
Southern Gothic
1/6/2019 to 10/12/2019
Reason: Started reading the book, but never got a chance to finish it.
Summary: In 1833, a wild, imposing man named Thomas Sutpen comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, with a group of slaves and a French architect in tow. Thomas Sutpen's daughter with a slave woman and now a withered old woman herself, sets fire to the manor house, killing herself and Henry, and bringing the Sutpen dynasty to a fiery end.
Genre: Children's Literature
Started Reading: August 2019
Finished Reading: October 31, 2019
Reason: Did not have a legitimate reason to read this book.
Summary: Ivan, who has never had the highest self-esteem, is “catapulted” into his new role as the protector of Ruby. Getting Ruby through her grief, Ivan is filled with memories and which was then forced to confront his buried familial wounds.
Genre: Dystopian
Started reading: 2016
Finished reading: October 12, 2019
Reason: I was interested to see what the movie missed and what they included from the novel.
Summary: In a twist of fate, Prim Katniss‘ 12-year-old sister is selected as one of the tributes. Having lost their father at a young age, she isn‘t going to let her mother lose her too as she swore always to protect them.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Started Reading: Gr.8
Finished Reading: Gr.8
Reason: We read this book as a class, and later watched the movie.
Summary: Walking home from a movie, Ponyboy is attacked by a group of Socs, the greasers‘ rivals, who are upper-class youths from the West Side of town. The Socs, short for Socials, gang up on Ponyboy and threaten to slit his throat. A group of greasers comes and chases the bullies away, saving Ponyboy.
The book ends with the proposal of Martin and Terry to create a laboratory in Terry's woodland home so they can be able to do the important research they enjoy and need without the commercial burden exerted by department heads and institute presidents. 5y