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February 12, 2025

Prophet Song – Paul Lynch

The 2023 Booker Prize winner is a powerful tribute to the victims who were, who are, and who will be of either state-induced dictatorship…

February 3, 2025

“You who live safe in your warm houses, You who find, returning in the evening, hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is…

January 25, 2025

This is a brilliant play by Henrik Ibsen which is also my first introduction to the author. The play mainly revolves around the theme…

January 25, 2025

“I’m inclined to think that we are all ghosts, every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers…

January 25, 2025

Augustus by John Williams is one of the best books I have read. I have grown more stingy with my rating lately, but I…

January 10, 2025

This book comprises Volumes 5 (The Captive) and 6 (The Fugitive) of In Search of Lost Time. In these two volumes, we go through…

January 10, 2025

The Fire Next Time contains two powerful, profound, and intelligent essays written on racism. The first essay named “My Dungeons Shook” is a letter…

January 10, 2025

This volume of In Search of Lost Time was a bit disappointing. Up to this fourth volume, I enjoyed Proust’s narrative, the beautiful and…

December 28, 2024

In all my reviews of Virginia Woolf novels, there is one thing I repeat. It is that she doesn’t write stories to conform to…

December 28, 2024

Absalom, Absalom is my first novel by William Faulkner. It is also one of the most complex books I have read. However, knowing the…