When I go to new cities/countries, the first thing I want to do is check out the local food and then see what bookstores and the types of books that are around. Somewhere in between these two things, I may end up buying another scarf for my collection… Continue reading
I used to think trigger warnings were pointless before I had anything to trigger. Continue reading
Corrine, or Italy – Madame de Stael (1807)
If you can’t get the man of your dreams, let him marry your half sister. Before dying of a broken heart, teach your half sister all your tricks so he’ll never be able to forget you. Continue reading
I recently read the book Mr Clive and Mr Page by Neil Bartlett. It is a truly fascinating book that makes you question your notions of reality and narrator reliability. The notion of the twin, or in this case double, plays a strong and central role in the novel since Mr Page and Mr Clive … Continue reading
In our busy world it is hard to find time to do all the things that we want to do. Whether its exercise, spending more time with friends or family, learning a new language, or reading more, we somehow lose time without evening knowing how it happened. Our time does not seem to feel like … Continue reading
“We murder who we were so we can rebirth ourselves in the image of our dreams.” (29) This is, for me, the most powerful sentence in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine. In this one sentence it summarises the story of the novel by embodying the nature of transcontinental lives and living. The main protagonist in Mukherjee’s novel … Continue reading
“Two ways to the cottage. Different ways: one was very old, and one was new.” Continue reading
Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners was written in the 1950s in a climate of change for the West Indies and Britain. As the British Empire slowly lost grip of its ‘acquired’ colonies, the British population found themselves with the confronting prospect of their colonial subjects ‘invading’ their white spaces and homeland. The Lonely Londoners tells … Continue reading
The Golem and the Djinni is, like many fantasy stories, long. With close to 700 pages it’s a commitment sort of book. Nothing you would hastily rush into, something that requires diligence and effort. Something that requires patience. For a long time, it was a book that I could not read because I lacked the time … Continue reading
If you follow news about books and writing you have probably seen article after article about Zoella and her book Girl Online. You have probably seen attacks against the work for its ghostwriting elements and also defenses of the book stating that Zoella used editors and proofreaders like any other writer would. I’ve never followed … Continue reading
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