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October 24, 2018

‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories’ Review

April 30, 2018

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, by Ernest Hemingway, is a collection of ten short stories. Aside from The Snows of Kilimanjaro, which deals with a fictional writer ruminating over his wasted potential, there’s A...

‘A Farewell to Arms’ Review

Michael Parke, Staff Writer

March 19, 2018

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A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway, is a novel about love during the first World War. It is Hemingway’s second novel. The story follows an American in the Italian Army named Frederic Henry. He’s an officer and paramedic and jo...

‘Not A Scam’ Poetry Review

Michael Parke, Staff Writer

February 28, 2018

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‘Negligible Tales & The Parenticide’ Club Review

Michael Parke, Staff Writer

February 28, 2018

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After reading through Can Such Things Be?, by Ambrose Bierce, I found myself in the library looking for another book, but I couldn’t find anything of interest. Finding myself frustrated at The Plague, by Albert Camus, and ente...

‘Soldiers’ Review

Michael Parke, Staff Writer

February 26, 2018

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Soldiers is the first of two collections of short stories creating In the Midst of Life* concerning the Civil War and its participants by wit and writer Ambrose Bierce. Most of the stories are in the third person omniscient and some are fro...

‘Can Such Things Be?’ Review

Michael Parke, Staff Writer

February 26, 2018

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Continuing on with the book entitled The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce, I decided to skip The Devil’s Dictionary and move straight onto Can Such Things Be?, a collection of twenty-four short stories by our beloved author...

‘Civilians’ Review

February 5, 2018

There is a New Meaning to ‘Clowning Around’

January 31, 2018

‘The Sun Also Rises’ Review

Michael Parke, Staff Writer

January 26, 2018

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I was given an old hardcover edition of The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, to read for class. It was great. The book details the tumultuous adventures of Jake Barnes, Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn and others. Readers start...

‘As I Lay Dying’ Review

January 18, 2018

‘Gone With the Wind’ Review

Michael Parke, Staff Writer

January 8, 2018

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Gone With the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, is a historical fiction novel following a young southern belle, Scarlett O’Hara, through her life before, during, and after the Civil War. The novel starts in 1861 with sixteen...