by Madeleine Rose Jones | Jan 1, 2021 | Cinema, General Fiction, History, literature
How should literature and film depict WWII? What are the problems writers encounter when depicting The Holocaust, The Blitz, Hitler Youth, And Pearl Harbor? WWII remains an interesting topic for writers in the Anglosphere. It’s easy to see why: the impact WWII...
by Madeleine Rose Jones | Dec 18, 2020 | Cinema, General Fiction, literature, Philosophy
There’s nothing wrong with an adult who loves children’s literature. However, there is something wrong when they accept the moral foundations of such media as absolute truth. I am an adult who loves Harry Potter and classical Disney fairytale movies. Was...
by Madeleine Rose Jones | Dec 16, 2020 | Book Recommendations, literature
Out of all the gothic novels I have read, one stands out. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. It’s a terrific book, and in this post, I will hopefully convince others to read it. “I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to...
by Madeleine Rose Jones | Dec 14, 2020 | literature, Uncategorized
Something is rotten in the current state of literature. But first, a confession. As much as I love reading literature, I prefer classics. This is because I’m frustrated with many traits of modern literature, and believe that it’s not reaching its full...
by Madeleine Rose Jones | Dec 11, 2020 | History, literature, Philosophy
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote The Gulag Archipelago. It’s a big book, but the Nobel-Prize winner soaks his words with wisdom and knowledge born from melancholy. When I think of Solzhenitsyn, I get sad. Not because I think he has a sad legacy, or that his life...
by Madeleine Rose Jones | Dec 4, 2020 | Book Recommendations, literature
Note: This post does not contain spoilers. Have you taken a risk recently with your reading? Picked a book based on its cover or premise? I did, and the novel is called Utopian Man. It won the Vogel Prize in 2009, an award for first time authors in Australia. The...
