Book – Penelopiad – The Myth Of Penelope and Odysseus Author – Margaret Atwood Genre – Historical Fiction Protagonist – Penelope Summary – The story of Penelope – as told by herself. In The Odyssey, Penelope – daughter of King Icarius of Sparta, and the cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy – is [...]
Archive for February, 2010
I got this book from the library and have been facinated with it’s cover ever since. I had read this book a few months back but I think it had this 1st cover which I failed to appreciate at that time. I wanted to read it again so I re issued the book. Now I [...]
I thought I would do a library loot post post but I am too tired to format anything and link. Now I know what dead tired actually means. I mean I want to write up reviews. I want to participate and link up my reviews for challenges and I know how badly I want to [...]
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Posted: February 24, 2010 in Reviews, Young Adult Book Challenge 2010I never realized dystopian fiction could be this good. For the uninitiated dystopia is a vision, of an often futuristic society, which has developed into a negative version of Utopia. A Dystopia is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government. It often features different kinds of repressive social control systems, a lack [...]
