Fantasy – PiyangieJay

March 4, 2023

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino

Don’t ask me what this novel is about, Reader, for my interpretation will differ from yours. But if you are the kind of reader…

February 10, 2023

Idylls of the King is a beautiful retelling of the Arthurian legend. In blank verse, Tennyson tells us the coming of Arthur, the romantic…

December 9, 2022

A Christmas Carol is my most favourite Christmas story. Scrooge has been an interesting character for me not only because I liked him (not…

September 12, 2022

Childhood’s End is my first read of a work by Arthur C. Clarke. Being not an enthusiast of the science fiction genre, I wasn’t…

August 11, 2022

History records that Virgil wrote his epic poem The Aeneid to fulfill two purposes. One is to restore the faith among Romans in the…

July 2, 2022

The Wind in the Willows is widely accepted as a children’s novel. To some extent, this classification is justified since its story consists of…

April 28, 2022

The Return of the King is the final part of the trilogy where the fellowship marks its victory over the Dark Lord, Sauron. The…

April 18, 2022

“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for…

February 15, 2022

“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” Synopsis…

December 8, 2021

Written in the style of magical realism, Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo is quite an unusual novel. Its characters are ghosts and the only one…