A Spiritual Force – Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead is a long letter written by Rev. John Ames to his seven-year-old son, whom he begat at a very late age. Rev. Ames believes his…
Read articleNot for the Impatient – The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient is a novel set in World War II that tells the history of the English patient, a desert explorer who is burned to…
Read articleFriendship Over – A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
A Passage to India is a novel that explores the tension between the local Indians and the British colonizers. The novel begins with Adela Quested traveling…
Read articleThe Man in the Yellow Suit – Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
Mysteries is a novel about Johan Nagel, a man who suddenly lives in a small Norwegian town and who gets the townspeople going with his eccentric…
Read articleA Steal – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Book Thief tells the story of Liesel Meminger, the person referred by the novel’s title, living her early teenage years at a suburban town in…
Read articleThe Model Couple – Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Revolutionary Road is a novel that I presumptuously described as an existential suburban drama. Frank and April Wheeler, a self-assured couple, move their family at the…
Read articleWhat Makes a Man – The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage explores the nature of courage in the midst of a war. Henry Fleming, a new recruit, is constantly thinking of the…
Read articleKeep Your Diary Safe – The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
The Death of the Heart is a novel about the almost year-long stay of a recently orphaned child in the pre-war London. Portia, sixteen years old,…
Read articleTransience – Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping is Marilynne Robinson’s first novel that tells us the story of two sisters who are raised by different relatives. Ruth and Lucille, during their adolescent years,…
Read articleWhat Goes Around, Comes Around – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tells the story of the impoverished eponymous hero who, against all odds, sets out to win the contest of an eccentric…
Read articleA Hundred Feelings – Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is the second collection of poetry published by the Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. The poems in this collection…
Read article6 Months, 3 Books, 1 Drum – The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
The Tin Drum is the first book in the Danzig Trilogy. It tells us the story of Oskar Matzerath with reminiscences from his birth up to…
Read articleOf literary critics, professors, journalists, crime detectives, and cult writers – 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
2666 is Roberto Bolano’s master statement. Published a year after his death and translated into English a few more years later, it is an enormous book…
Read articleWhat Does Nothing Mean? – Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Play It As It Lays is the second novel of Joan Didion that shows us Maria’s spiral descent into self-destruction. The anti-heroine, a forgettable actress and the wife…
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