Book Bingo is taking us back in time to the 1920s! Books published in the 1920s made up most of my English curriculum and though it was often hard to love a book that was assigned, that century on its own has held a lot of fascination for me, especially now, a hundred years later.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
This was one of the few books assigned to me that stuck and stuck hard. I fell in love with Gatsby’s world, this idea of trying so hard to battle where you come from. The thought of losing oneself to become what someone else wants no matter the cost was mind blowing to me. But also the visually stunning landscape, the decadence, when Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby film came out it felt like it was made for me. It had all the beauty and the darkness visualized perfectly, with an amazing soundtrack!
The Mysterious Affair at Styles: A Detective Story by Agatha Christie (1920)
The book that started it all! I recently read that Agatha Christie wrote this book to win a bet. The bet was that she couldn’t write a mystery novel in which the reader could spot the murderer before the detective…she definitely won! This book brought to life a much beloved character, Hercule Poirot, that continues to live on in TV shows and films. And as we know Christie didn’t just stop here, she ushered in an era of mystery fiction for years to come.
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft (1928)
Talk about an author whose work has continued to weave into so much of our literary world, as well as, television and film. From Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country to the infamous Key House in the Locke & Key series by Joe Hill – both of which have made it to the television screen. The Call of Cthulhu was published in a magazine called Weird Tales in 1928. The fictional creature of Cthulhu was completely created from Lovecraft’s imagination. Said to be shaped like an octopus, a dragon, and a caricature of human form. That creature in and of itself created its own legacy.
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~posted by Kara P.
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