Book #54 Reviewer: Inspirational Reads Archie and Samad are the unlikeliest of friends. Archie is white, middle-class,with a lean towards insipidness. Samad is a Muslim, devout in his beliefs and sensitive to how foreign his race and religion make him. … Continue reading
Book #86 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily (first published 2008) This is my first foray into my Booklitzer Challenge. If this novel is anything to go by, it truly will be a challenge to start and finish each one in it’s … Continue reading
Welcome to this edition of The Week Ahead. This week we will be starting off with Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible. This is set in the Belgian Congo, or Zaire or the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the late … Continue reading
Book #437 Reviewer: t, of as long as i’m singing. I’ll admit it. I saw the movie first. Look, it was the eighties, and I was a punk kid. And in my circle, it was almost expected that you would … Continue reading
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Book #343 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily (first published 2008) This is the 1973 Booker Prize winner by J.G.Farrell. The setting is the 1857 Indian Mutiny. The story is told from the perspective of a number of British residents in Krishnapur. … Continue reading
Books 343 and 437 are the reviews for the coming week. On Monday we will be making our first literary visit to India. Set during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, it is the 1973 Booker Prize winning The Siege of … Continue reading
Book #95 Reviewer: Inspirational Reads Joe and his wife are on a romantic picnic when a hot air balloon becomes untethered with a lone boy in it. Joe and a number of other onlookers rush to assist; the boy lives … Continue reading
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
― Mark Twain
