Joyce Dunbar

Advantages: A good bedtime story
Disadvantages: Your child might want to copy Willa

...'Tell me something happy before I go to sleep' by Joyce Dunbar tells the story of Willa, a young rabbit (depicted as a soft toy) who cannot get to sleep and seeks comfort from her elder brother Willoughby. Willa is afraid she will have bad dreams, so Willoughby encourages her to think of something happy instead. Willia crosses her ears over her eyes to concentrate, but she can't think of anything happy, so she askes Willoughby to suggest something. Willoughby, who is sitting up reading in the top bunk, tells Willa to look under her bed. Willa sees her chicken slippers there, which her brother reminds her are waiting for nobody's feet but Willa's. Willa agrees that this is a happy thought, but she is not easily satisfied and asks for another one. Willoughby draws her attention to a chair, where his sister's jumpsuit is longing... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: A good bedtime story
Disadvantages: Your child might want to copy Willa

...'Tell me something happy before I go to sleep' by Joyce Dunbar tells the story of Willa, a young rabbit (depicted as a soft toy) who cannot get to sleep and seeks comfort from her elder brother Willoughby. Willa is afraid she will have bad dreams, so Willoughby encourages her to think of something happy instead. Willia crosses her ears over her eyes to concentrate, but she can't think of anything happy, so she askes Willoughby to suggest something. Willoughby, who is sitting up reading in the top bunk, tells Willa to look under her bed. Willa sees her chicken slippers there, which her brother reminds her are waiting for nobody's feet but Willa's. Willa agrees that this is a happy thought, but she is not easily satisfied and asks for another one. Willoughby draws her attention to a chair, where his sister's jumpsuit is longing... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages:
Disadvantages:

...Dubliners is a book of understated excellence. Dubliners represents prose at its aesthetic maximum. Joyce’s method in Dubliners is breathtakingly economical: the words are stretched taut across the page to reveal the drab, moribund nature of a tired and defeated city. Yet Joyce maintains his personal beliefs: the ideas of epiphany rising out of straightforward existence, and his lyricism at such moments adds to the charm of this composite work. The depressing, yet somehow uplifting tale of suburban life, Dubliners is the art of Joyce at its economical best: a testament to the skill of an author who would later destroy that which he had striven so carefully to render.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages:
Disadvantages:

...Ulysses is a book that mere words cannot describe. Joyce’s modernist classic, for me represents the pinnacle of his achievements as a writer. It is not the dry social critique of Dubliners, nor is it the somewhat self-indulgent and impenetrable treatise that is Finnegan’s Wake. Rather, Ulysses occupies a ground between the two; the perfect balance between theme and method. The symbolic and perfectly rendered journey of Leopold Bloom reveals a consciousness, not just belonging to the Irish man, but relevant to a modern humanity. In doing so, Joyce depicts the epiphanies to be yielded from ordinary modern life, and the aesthetic code which such epiphanies require. Ulysses is a multi-layered masterpiece of twentieth century fiction.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful