Book Review – In Our Time

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
1^st Reading, Summer 2014

Published in 1925, Ernest Hemmingway’s first book is a collection of sixteen short stories, each of which is interspersed with a vignette. These vignettes, which are shorter than one page and typically deal with war or bullfighting, are labeled as the book’s “chapters.”

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The sixteen stories focus on the varying interpersonal relationships people live with (and often struggle with) and the influences, such as family, setting, love, responsibility, and war, that shape our growth as humans.

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Each time I finish a book I perform a secret ritual. In a sad attempt to catalog my own life, I write the book title on a notepad and rate the book on a scale of ten. I have a running list of every book I’ve read over the last 14 years. Am I desperately clinging to my aging memories as time marches relentlessly onward? Probably. But I like to remember what books I’ve read, when I’ve read them, and what I thought of them at that time. Did you know that in the Summer of 2009 I read Twelfth Night and rated it an 8/10? See, I wasn’t kidding.