The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

May 8, 2009

Plot summary (with possible spoilers): Newspaper reporter Jim Qwilleran has just been given a new assignment at the Daily Fluxion. He’s to become the lead reporter for the paper’s “Gracious Abodes” magazine, which will feature photos and stories of some of the most distinctive homes in the area. Qwilleran, who has been used to the [...]

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Tom Brown’s Schooldays

May 8, 2009

Plot summary (with possible spoilers): Published in 1857, Tom Brown’s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes was one of the first of the so-called “school novel” genre that detailed what life is like at one of Britain’s many public schools. This particular novel concerns a boy named Tom Brown, to whom the reader is introduced while still [...]

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