[3] Imagine an American Jane Austen writing about 19th century America, but more tragic than comic, and with a strangely helpless man at its center – and there you have Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence [4]. Like Ms. Austen’s novels, Ms. Wharton’s work is focused on the mores and manners of the aristocracy.
[6] Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy grow up in what appears to be an idyllic English boarding school – but not everything is what it seems. The children at this school are groomed for a specific and special purpose. They are genetically engineered clones, bred to end their lives as organ donors for the rest of the population.
[8] What scares you most about yourself? Is it the other person you hide just beneath your facade? The one you pretend doesn’t exist – the one capable of performing acts you could never commit on your own? That primeval fear is confronted in Stephen King’s new book, Full Dark, No Stars.
[10] Talk about synchronicity. When I decided that I was going to re-read James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time for the Library’s Building Bridges Book Club [11], I already happened to be reading Henry Louis Gates’ Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, a collection of profiles of prominent African-American men.
[13] Every now and then, we spend a little time doing something we know is wrong. Sometimes, especially if we get caught, we admit to the crime. But sometimes the crime feels a little too good to let go. Such is the case with Sutter Keely, a senior in high school on the brink of graduation. He has the world at his fingertips — and an ice-cold glass of 7&7 in his actual fingers. Constantly.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC+Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/classics-reviewed-age-innocence
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22wharton%22+title:%22age+of+innocence%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/12506#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-never-let-me-go
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/12492#comment-form
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-full-dark-no-stars
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/12374#comment-form
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/classics-reviewed-fire-next-time-james-baldwin
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blackliterature
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/12302#comment-form
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-spectacular-now
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/12300#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=41
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=38
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=39
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=40
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=43
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=44
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=45
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=46
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=50
