Bad Summaries
Emo falls in love with a sparkly man.
Twilight
This scrappy canine character shares a name with a chain of supermarkets in this Kate DiCamillo novel.
Winn-Dixie
They're more ways to approach a solution.
There are more ways to approach a solution.
In this novel, a merry band of dwarves, a wizard, and reluctant new friend must go on an adventure to reclaim their own from a fire-breathing dragon.
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
Only this, and nothing more."
Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven
Bored housekeeper spills all the tea about her angsty boss's family.
Wuthering Heights
Angry and covered in blood, this girl is ready for revenge.
Carrie
They will choose ___________ they please.
They will choose whom(ever) they please.
In this novel, A woman is forced to reckon with America's dark past as she is pulled back in time by a strange familial connection.
Kindred - Octavia Butler
A sepal, petal, and a thorn
Upon a common summer's morn —
A flask of Dew — A Bee or two —
A Breeze — a caper in the trees —
And I'm a Rose!
Emily Dickinson - A sepal, petal, and a thorn
Sunlight averse goth girl gaslights everyone for 100 pages.
Carmilla - Le Fanu
Kit/Katherine - The Witch of Blackbird Pond
While visiting the beach, we saw: pelicans, stingrays, and iguanas.
While visiting the beach, we saw pelicans, stingrays, and iguanas.
Named after a Bible verse, this southern gothic classic follows a young man as he finds himself in the aftermath of his uncles biblical indoctrination.
The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O'Connor
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful‚
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Mirror - Sylvia Plath
Depressed man describes how depressing everything is until he is attacked by a dead(?) girl.
The Fall of the House of Usher
The titular vampire in Polidori's "The vampyre"
Lord Ruthven
Susan said it's different from anything she's ever read.
In this novel, two former friends cross paths once again in Chicago, discovering the vastly different trajectories their lives took. As paranoia, secrets, and double-lives become known, one of them will die.
Passing - Nella Larsen
Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Man ignores every problem he created.
Frankenstein
Paranoid after discovering a conspiracy between mailmen, this woman goes on an adventure to figure it out.
Oedipa Maas - The Crying of Lot 49
I want to speak with whom was in charge of the wood carving contest cause who they chose did the job good.
I want to speak with whoever was in charge of the wood-carving contest, because whomever they chose did the job well.
In this gothic novel, a grief-ridden prince destroys his family after discovering his favorite child, and only son, murdered by a giant helmet.
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
Upon that night, when fairies light
On Cassilis Downans dance,
Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze,
On sprightly coursers prance;
Or for Colean the route is ta'en,
Beneath the moon's pale beams;
There, up the cove, to stray and rove,
Among the rocks and streams
To sport that night.
Robert Burns - Halloween