August 2009 • Brian Beholds

Day the Falls Stood Still: Test of Female Faith, Strength

reading / Brian Tomlin / August 30, 2009 / environment, power

Buchanan, Cathy Marie. (2009). The Day the Falls Stood Still. New York: Voice/Hyperion. ISBN: 978-1-4103-4097-1 320 pages. Fiction: Novel: Historical Fiction Gist A young woman grows to maturity in Niagara Falls during and after World War I. She endures loss in many forms, testing her faith and her strength. Based loosely […]

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The Road: novel is realistic rendition of a nightmare

McCarthy, Cormac.(2006). The Road. New York: Knopf. 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction Everything in The Road is reduced to the minimum; the language and writing style are stripped along with the lives of the characters. No linguistic decoration or extraneous description, luxury or sense of comfort. No neat tidy chapters or markers to tell