8.
Title: [Dead Heat]
Author: Patricia Briggs
Genre: Urban Fantasy?
Medium: Hardback
Acquisition: Pre-Order
Date Completed: March 5, 2015
Rating: ****
The fourth book in the Alpha Omega series finds Anna and Charles traveling to warmer climes, and getting wrapped up in both personal drama and fae-hunting. The personal conflict felt by Charles as he visits old friends is far more compelling than anything between he and his wife, which is a bit of a shame; their resolution is tertiary to everything else in the book, which makes it ultimately disappointing. However, the action of the story is what I would expect from a Briggs werewolf story, and the active plot is thus far more satisfying. Briggs opens too many doors to write completely, but I can't rate it too low, since it kept my attention enough to read it in a single sitting.
9. 
Title:[The Picture of Dorian Grey]
Author: Oscar Wilde
Genre: Gothic
Medium: Norton Critical Paperback
Acquisition:
Date Completed: March 9, 2015
Rating: *****
The Picture of Dorian Grey is my favorite novel, and each time I read Wilde's longest work I find something new to cherish, question, and consider. This time I again brought the novel to my classroom, with similar mixed results as previous attempts. I focused on the establishment of identity and character - how each character creates a self, and Wilde's relation to his three principal characters - and whether or not readers should condemn Dorian's vanity (his face, after all, is very clearly his only value). I'm not sure I'll use it again in the future, because anything less than perfect enthusiasm is disappointing.
10. 
Title: [The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]
Author: Alan Moore
Genre: Graphic Novel
Medium: Paperback
Acquisition:
Date Completed: March 13, 2015
Rating: ***
I suppose the best I can say is that I didn't dislike the book as much as I did during my first reading. Focusing on intended audience and multimedia literacy, we compared characterization from the comic and the original source material. I held on to the fact that the text establishes literature as a savior of mankind (although it's also the villain), but ultimately it's not a text I favor.
11. 
Title: [The Wind Done Gone]
Author: Alice Randall
Genre: Appropriative Novel
Medium: Paperback
Acquisition: For class
Date Completed: March 21, 2015
Rating:
12. 
Title: [Reality Hunger]
Author: David Shields
Genre: Nonfiction
Medium: Paperback
Acquisition: For class
Date Completed: March 22, 2015
Rating:
13. 
Title: [Prudence]
Author: Gail Carriger
Genre: Steampunk
Medium: Kindle
Acquisition:
Date Completed: March 28, 2015
Rating: ***.5
I miss The Parasol Protectorate, and so was very happy to hear about the famous daughter, Prudence Akeldama. She is much like Carriger readers would expect from previous books, but it's much more fantasy and less Victorian - Prudence spends a great deal of time nude, given her abilities. Social decorum is arbitrarily addressed, and I missed more of an attempt at polite society, which is certainly not the world in which Prudence finds herself here. Regardless, it was a fun fantasy romp through an almost-19th-century-India, and I'll certainly follow the series if it develops as it has begun.
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