Squirrel!!

I have been reading our current Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Magnificent Ambersons by Boothe Tarkington. I’m just having trouble with our dear MC Georgie. I hate him. There I said it. Despise him. Am only interested in reading on to see if he gets the crap beat out of him. This slow turn-of-heart is notContinue

Now Reading: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

The Longest Reading Tour Ever moves on to book #2 on the Pulitzer Prize list. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington. (Available at Project Gutenberg) Published in 1918, TMA is the second book of Tarkington’s Growth trilogy. It confuses me that the second book in a trilogy can win without the first. They obviously buildContinue

Rabbit Holes

I have to write my head around it instead of having my head around it to write.

His Family Wrap Up

Welcome back to the Pulitzer Prize List for Novel and Fiction Read-a-long! If you’ve just joined us, you’ve just found us. We’re reading (and discussing) the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel/Fiction books. In order. We’re early in the Longest Reading Tour Ever, having just completed the first book on the list. We’ve finished our firstContinue

Enter the Plot twist

I’ll keep spoilers out if you’re finding this post and haven’t read His Family yet but are considering it. The thing about change is it comes, out of the blue sometimes, if we want it to or not. Man on the edge of a cliff. You can only stand on the precipice so long beforeContinue

Pulitzer Tour – His Family or OH! The Misogyny!

43% Complete. Finished Chapter 19 of 40. If you’re reading on surface level, the misogynistic ideas are, to say the least, hard to get past! Since we left them… Minimal Spoilers… While the story is told from Roger’s eyes, his daughters are the catalysts to all that happens. Laura is still on her honeymoon; EdithContinue