Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Friday Meme #67

September 27, 2018 Whitney Friday Memes 7 Comments

Hosted by Rose City Reader Beginning: Lolita, light of my life. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. Hosted by Freda’s Voice Page 56 The passion I had developed for that […]

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

November 4, 2016 Whitney Review 5 Comments

Impressions on Book I had not read Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov in a least ten years and after watching the 1962 movie felt it was time to reread the classic novel. When I first read Lolita I remember being shocked by Humbert Humbert’s actions finding it grotesque. On this reread, in a generation jaded by […]