Mailbox Mondays: The Mid-May Edition
byWelcome to Mailbox Monday, a meme started by Marcia of To Be Continued. I’ve rejected review requests left, right. and center this month. I…
Literary Fiction
8 The Bluest Eye
byThis book is Toni Morrison’s first novel. In it, the Nobel Prize winner tells the story of a girl called Pecola who is convinced…
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
byA novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life, and the impossibility of love. Richard Flanagan’s story — of Dorrigo Evans, an…
Teaser Tuesdays: The Narrow Road to the Deep North
byThis book is all kinds of difficult and all kinds of awesome all at the same time. It’s hard to read but I think…
Ten Best Books of the Last Three Years
byToday, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list the ten books that we’d class as our all time…
8.3 The Power of Literature and Academia in The Secret History
byUnder the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of…
Teaser Tuesdays: The Secret History
byI casually picked up The Secret History by Donna Tartt this weekend, and she just totally reeled me in, right from the opening page…
8 The Lowland
byGrowing up in Calcutta, born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other. But they…
Teaser Tuesdays: The Lowland
byI started reading The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri last week, and although I’ve probably read only 2-3 pages I know I am going to…
Top Ten Books That Would Make a Great Book Club Pick
byThis is my first 2015 top ten Tuesday post. I don’t know why, but I have been a but unmotivated to do tag/meme posts,…