Paige McTernan

Annotated Bibliography: The Wrong Mr. Darcy

Hara tells her dad (who is in prison) that she will interview a famous basketball player (+) Hara’s mother presses her to find a husband (-) The flight to Boston and limo ride from airport is unpleasant (-) Hara sees Derek Darcy for the first time (+) …and then embarasses herself in front of himContinue reading “Annotated Bibliography: The Wrong Mr. Darcy”

A Look Inside The Wrong Mr. Darcy

When I stumbled upon The Wrong Mr. Darcy on Goodreads, I was fully prepared to read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice all over again, but this time in a modern, 21st century setting. My taste in novels doesn’t stray very far from romance and fiction, however I did hope that there was going to beContinue reading “A Look Inside The Wrong Mr. Darcy”

Understanding Rhetoric: How Submitting to this Story is Beneficial

When I first read The House in the Cerulean Sea, I was immersed in Linus’s life as a case worker for magical youth. Though he leads a dull life, any reader could tell that he cared about the children in the orphanages and made sure they were properly taken care of. His gray, gloomy worldContinue reading “Understanding Rhetoric: How Submitting to this Story is Beneficial”

A Closer Look at Majesties: Reading Into Genre

By: Paige McTernan Majesties by Tiffany Tsao is a story chock-full of twists, turns, and shocking moments of truth. It creates not characters one would love, but instead characters one would hate or take pity on. The final chapter and closing scene definitely threw me off in a way I was not expecting! There wasContinue reading “A Closer Look at Majesties: Reading Into Genre”

The Symbols and Messages of Santiago’s Journey

By: Paige McTernan I first became aware of The Alchemist when I found the title on a summer reading list during my senior year of high school. I had never experienced the book up until now, but what I have experienced in this story of Personal Legends is indeed a miraculous one. I had mostlyContinue reading “The Symbols and Messages of Santiago’s Journey”

Giovanni’s Room Blog 3

I can’t stop thinking about The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. While thinking of material to mine for this blog post, I became fixated on the idea that Hemingway’s novel could be a codex of sorts with the power to decrypt the many themes, contradictions, and whispered questions that live within James Baldwin’s Giovanni’sContinue reading “Giovanni’s Room Blog 3”