Jill Fairchild’s Trees: A Celebration is less a single narrative than a curated chorus of voices, images, and meditations that together compose an arboreal anthology. As its title suggests, the book is not meant merely to instruct or classify, but to honor. What distinguishes this work from more conventional botanical texts is the way it operates at … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s book Review – Trees, A Celebration edited by Jill Fairchild
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Walden by Henri-David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854) stands as a cornerstone of American transcendentalist literature, weaving personal narrative, philosophical reflection, and natural observation into a profound meditation on self-reliance and the art of living. Written after a two-year sojourn in a simple cabin on the shores of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, Thoreau’s work reflects both his intimate communion … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Walden by Henri-David Thoreau
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review: The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and the Damned (1922) occupies a curious space in his oeuvre—less structured than The Great Gatsby yet more ambitious in its thematic scope, it is a novel that attempts to dissect the existential crisis of a generation. It is a work that aches with self-awareness, mirroring the author’s own anxieties about love, ambition, and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review: The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review: The Dubliners by James Joyce
The Paralyzed Soul of Dublin James Joyce’s Dubliners (1914) is more than a collection of short stories—it is an unflinching dissection of a city and its people, a portrait of spiritual stagnation, and a masterclass in modernist realism. In these fifteen interwoven stories, Joyce strips away the romantic veneer of Irish nationalism and Catholic idealism, exposing instead … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review: The Dubliners by James Joyce
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Pilgrim by Timothy Findley
Timothy Findley’s Pilgrim (1999) is a novel that resists the inertia of conventional historical fiction, weaving a tapestry of existential crisis, psychological inquiry, and the aching weight of history. At its core, Pilgrim is a philosophical meditation on the nature of art, memory, and immortality, told through the hauntingly enigmatic figure of Pilgrim—a man who cannot die. The novel … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Pilgrim by Timothy Findley
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
A Study in Time, Memory, and the Fractured South William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929) stands as one of the most audacious achievements in American literature, a novel that does not merely depict the decline of the once-aristocratic Compson family but immerses its readers in the chaos of fractured consciousness, the weight of memory, and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
The Adaptable Educator’s Book review – T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
The Waste Land: A Fragmented Mirror of ModernityT.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic and revolutionary poems of the 20th century. With its fragmented structure, mythological allusions, and polyphonic voices, the poem embodies the fractured consciousness of the post-war world. Eliot’s dense intertextuality—drawing from sources as varied as Dante, Shakespeare, the Upanishads, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book review – T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – How to Travel with a Salmon: And Other Essays by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco’s How to Travel with a Salmon: And Other Essays is a dazzling showcase of wit, erudition, and an almost surgical observation of the absurdities of modern life. This collection, translated by William Weaver, epitomizes Eco’s ability to oscillate effortlessly between the profound and the comically mundane, proving that even the minutiae of existence can be … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – How to Travel with a Salmon: And Other Essays by Umberto Eco
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans (1826), the second book in his Leatherstocking Tales series, remains a cornerstone of early American literature, both celebrated and critiqued for its ambitious portrayal of a formative period in North American history. Set during the French and Indian War, the novel is as much a sweeping adventure as it is an … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Toward Ethical Communitarianism: Iris Murdoch’s Vision for a Sustainable Alternative to Colonialism, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Capitalism
Iris Murdoch, a British philosopher and novelist, offers rich insights into human morality, the nature of good and evil, and the role of love in ethical behaviour. While she did not specifically address the interconnectivity of colonialism, nationalism, imperialism, and capitalism, her philosophical framework can be applied to critique these systems and propose an alternative. … Continue reading Toward Ethical Communitarianism: Iris Murdoch’s Vision for a Sustainable Alternative to Colonialism, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Capitalism
The New Renaissance Mindset 