Books
Book Reviews
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Last week I finished reading two books and both of them left me pretty underwhelmed. The ending of these books made me realise how important a good ending is for any story. One of them was the final of a three-book series and now all I remember of the series is the lacklustre ending which…
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Years after publishing Children of Blood and Bone and Children of Virtue and Vengeance, Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Anguish and Anarchy was released in 2024 and with this the trilogy of the Legacy of Orisha is complete. The first two parts came in 2018 and 2019 so the wait for the third part was quite…
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What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that’s not the main reason customers stop by . . . The Kamogawa Food…
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What if you get a chance to redo your life? What decisions will you change? Which life event will you delete? Or will you choose to not change anything about your past life? All This & More by Peng Shepherd is a book based on this premise. The book starts with “How to Read This…
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Before there was Adam and Eve, it was Adam and Lilith in the paradise called Eden. The story, Eden Abandoned is about Lilith and what she went through. Lilith, made by God after Adam, in the same way as He made Adam. The difference between the two: Lilith is more daring than Adam and knows…
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A story of valour, grit, power, loyalty and honour.
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Born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949, Haruki Murakami is one of the most celebrated authors around the world. In his novels he creates a poignant and surreal world which resonates with the readers. Murakami’s literary universe is a dreamscape where reality seamlessly blends with fantasy, and the mundane intertwines with the mysterious. His novels are…
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Published in 1936, Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is one of the most significant and well-known novels in American literature. It is the only nove published by Margaret Mitchell. The novel tells the story of Scarlett O’Hara, a young woman living in the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction era. As readers…
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Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus is a gothic novel written by Mary Shelley and published in 1818. The first edition of the novel was published anonymously and it was only the second edition, published in 1821 in Paris that Mary Shelley’s name appeared. In 1816, Mary, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Polidori, and Lord Byron had…
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is a novel by Gail Honeyman published in 2017. The novel is about a 29 year old woman named Eleanor Oliphant who lives alone in Glasgow, Scotland . She is academically intelligent and a loner. She is awkward in social settings and has no friends. She feels that she is…