Acerbic Awards

Well, it’s been exactly one month since my blog’s first birthday, so I thought I would celebrate by commemorating the day as the placeholder for the Acerbic Awards. You may be wondering what they are. I’m going to get to that. First, thank you all for such a great year, both readers and writers. I…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“’Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’” A classic is always a welcome sight to lay eyes on, but this particular story, one claimed as the second greatest work of the English Language in the 20th…