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Colour Out of Space, The

A Short Story of Creeping Horror By: H.P. Lovecraft In 1882, a lone farm in Arkham, Massachusetts is hit by a meteorite composed of indescribable colors which our narrator can only hint at yet never articulate; unable to discover the nature of the glowing stone, which gradually grows smaller and eventually disappears, farmer Nahum Gardener thinks he has been blessed when an extra-large cash crop comes in. However, as the oversized vegetables grow and morph, insidious and putrid colors make them inedible and the isolated Gardener family begins to grow steadily insane. All around them, the trees move when there [...]

2016-12-31T17:54:05-07:00March 26th, 2015|Tags: , , |

Catch 22

A Satirical Tale of Bureaucracy Author: Joseph Heller Catch 22 is a darkly satirical novel focusing on the absurdities of the system, in particular the eponymous Catch 22, which is used by clueless, self-seeking generals, colonels, and assorted “leaders” to do whatever they want. The novel touches on the darker themes of war, loss of innocence, and death while also keeping a glib tongue-and-cheek mockery of all those who succeed and rule, creating the administration that hinders real life. Ostensibly, the disjointed narrative is a violent version of Office Space, making a mockery of everything while presenting a disjoined timeline [...]

2016-12-31T17:54:05-07:00March 25th, 2015|Tags: |

Middlesex

Defining the Un-Definable: A Hermaphrodite Examines Gender Identity Author: Jeffrey Eugenides A generational epic, Middlesex is a novel about forbidden love, history, and gender identity set against a panoramic Greek background where the tragic invasion of Smyrna enables Calliope Stephanides’ grandparents to leave Greece for America and start a new life. The sins of the past, however, follow them in the form of a mutated gene that Calliope, our hermaphroditic narrator, feels defines her future, specifically in the year 1974 where a failure to develop as a girl and a crush on a school mate leave her to believe that [...]

2016-12-31T17:54:05-07:00March 24th, 2015|Tags: , |
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