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Honest book reviews.
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Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl's short story about a perfect housewife, a frozen leg of lamb, and the most satisfying dinner party in literature. My students loved it. I can see why.
4 min read
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's famous love story is a cover of an Ovid myth from 1,600 years earlier. Both are about love. Both are mostly about not waiting five minutes.
5 min read
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The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe's shortest masterpiece is about a painter so busy capturing his wife that he never actually looks at her. It takes ten minutes to read and stays with you much longer.
4 min read
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
A man spends two years building the perfect partner, then ghosts him on day one. Mary Shelley wrote the original situationship, and it still holds up.
3 min read
