I read this book in late nights, with tea and candles. I read it and I laugh and I cry and I get my hopes up and my dreams let down. You could say this book has it all, or at least you can say it has a lot. The Martian Chronicles are a series of interlinked stories as people from Earth arrive on Mars. It tells the story of humanity and its relation to Mars, to exploration, to ownership and to adventure. If you’re […]
Short stories by a master
“Maybe I don’t have enough to do. Maybe I have time to think too much. Why don’t we shut the whole house off for a few days and take a vacation?” We read The Illustrated Man in my seventh grade PACE class, which was like an honor English/Humanities (that I loved — we had the world’s greatest teacher, Mrs. Wood). That was the last time I read it — must have been around 1998 — but I remember the book and the class vividly. The first short […]
“It is good to renew one’s wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.”
Someone reviewed Dandelion Wine on here a week or two ago, and it reminded me how much I enjoy Bradbury, and how shamefully long it’s been since I’ve reread him. So I grabbed a couple of his short story collections at the library, and dove back in. I started with The Martian Chronicles, which I know I read in middle school but haven’t since then. “The Men of Earth came to Mars. They came because they were afraid or unafraid, because they were happy or unhappy, because they felt like Pilgrims […]
Bradbury was the Best!
I’m not entirely sure why I chose to read Dandelion Wine but I am very glad that I did. The book is a collection of short stories and yet much more at the same time. It is more like a series of vignettes that occur within one loosely organized plot and it is utterly delightful. Dandelion Wine, according to the author’s forward (and my memory), began as a writing exercise that Bradbury would do to persevere through stints of tough writing. He created the mythical […]