If You Don't Love Ulysses, Try Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Jame Joyce’s Ulysses seems to be on every single reading and novels list, but it’s not on Jay Ruud’s. He chose Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man instead, because it actually is lovable. ...
14 Okt 202550min
Beyond the Book Banning: Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
This week, Jay names Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter: A Romance to his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in English. Even though it’s one of the most banned books in the United States, ther...
7 Okt 202550min
Celebrate Banned Books Week with Huckleberry Finn
Jay joins Ernest Hemingway and many others in his love of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and this week it gets added to his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language. H...
30 Sep 202545min
Enter the Mysterious World of Dickens’ Bleak House
Jay puts his second Dickens novel on the list this week, Bleak House, published in 1853. The looooong book uses many characters, two narrative points of view and several suspenseful plots to keep the ...
23 Sep 202545min
The Way They Lived Then is The Way We Live Now
Jay adds Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now to his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in English this week. This long Victorian novel, which was initially serialized and then published in 1875, f...
16 Sep 202540min
The Lord of the Rings isn’t an Allegory, but it is Applicable
Named for the Dark Lord who created the One Ring, this trilogy is about the individuals who work together to save their society when the power to destroy them and their communities is building. Two of...
9 Sep 202559min
A Hardboiled MacGuffin: The Maltese Falcon
Jay shares with Stacey why he selected Dashiell Hammett’s classic detective novel The Maltese Falcon for his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language, and they continue their discus...
2 Sep 202545min
Shut Your Response Hole: Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep
This week, Stacey and Jay discuss the 50th book on Jay’s list of the Most Lovable Novels in the English Language, Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective novel The Big Sleep. Our culture’s dark and c...
26 Aug 202544min
