Wheatley’s bi-weekly classic book review takes a look back at Gabriel García Márquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude, which contains some confusing consanguinity.
After parental complaints, Champaign’s Unit 4 School District recently compromised on allowing the reading of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner in its sophomore honors English classes. Controversial books are usually the ones most worth reading. …
Foreign film buffs may recall a 1966 black-and-white Norwegian drama named Hunger about a starving writer that talks to his shoes. It won a few awards in Europe, mostly for Best Actor. In 1890, critics …
There are many fifty-dollar words to be learned through reading above your intelligence level. During these times, it pays to have a dictionary close to hand. For example, meretricious means tawdrily attractive, as in, “I …
In order to be liked and admired as a smart-ass, one must put in the time and effort: Step up your vocabulary, read more than one subtitle at a time, pick an author to loathe, …
