TBR challenges don’t often get beyond the here and now, and into the existential question of how many books you will read before you die, or more to the point, how many books you willnotread. I started reading from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list before I even star...
In other words, there are a lot of post-apocalyptic novels you should read before spending time on Greybeard. It’s a shame that Aldiss didn’t spend more time writing Greybeard because his premise is so good. I just finished the four-volume novel series by Elena Ferrante that begin with...
The postcolonial undeniably should raise these issues in a much more volatile and politically direct way than any other context. And where exactly is the ‘postcolonial’ in all these pieces? Is it a convenient hook on which to hang conventional reception study? Or is it a scalpel with which...
That’s why you must walk up on the hills so you can ride down. As usual I have a backlog of billets to write, which explains why I’m writing in February about a book I read in December. A book I went through, I should say. Here we are in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, ...
Yeah, I’ve been spending all this time I should have been posting making a facebook page for the site. Well, not really. Just the past day or so. The rest of the time I’ve spent being crazy busy and having a standoff with my bitchtastic computer. But I assure you, normal updat...
2. Tsang said to him, ‘When a bird is about to die, its notes are mournful; when a man is about to die, his words are good. 3. ‘There are three principles of conduct which the man of high rank should consider specially important:– that in his deportment and manner he keep ...
Thank you Netgalley and Udon Entertainment for providing me with the arc of this book. I am leaving this review voluntarily. Jane Eyre has always been on my radar but I never seem to pick it up for some strange reason. I really wanted to read the original before I got into the Manga...
This comes as quite the surprise because I have only ever read one other D. H. Lawrence novel – Women in Love –and hated it. I’m not actually sure why I even decided that I should buy another of his books, but there you go. Glad I did. The beginning of Sons and Lovers follow...
Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth lead a seemingly idyllic life at an elite boarding school. But as they grow into their teens, they realize they’re human clones, raised only for the purpose of “donating” their organs until they die. As each learns their own specific purpose, they must make choi...
Bruno Mars, "Just The Way You Are" Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, 2011 Dating advice from Bruno Mars: If you think someone is beautiful, you should tell them every day. Whether or not it got Mars a date for Valentine's Day, it did get him a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100...