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Piyangie Jay Ediriwickrema is an Attorney-at-Law by profession. Her devotion to literature has taken shape in reading and reviewing books of various genres set in different periods of time. She dabs at a little poetry and fiction of her own and hopes to share her work with the readers in the future.
March 9, 2023

A Romantic Dream – Piyangie Jay Ediriwickrema.

I want to walk on the shore with you, hand in hand, Looking at the white waves kissing the shore, Listening to the soft…

March 8, 2023

The Hour of Mayhem – Piyangie Jay Ediriwickrema

A mass of humans bustle over the platform; An anxious air above them The stinking clothes and crumpled faces paint a picture of exhaustion…

March 8, 2023

Heathcliff, the Tormented Soul of Wuthering Heights – Piyangie Jay Ediriwickrema

Oh Heathcliff, the gypsy orphan The stranger to the moors Unwelcomed at Wuthering Heights Did you bring a demon to this wild north? Or…

February 10, 2023

Idylls of the King – Alfred Tennyson

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

January 10, 2023

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

“…wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass…

January 1, 2023

Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities is quite a strange book. It chronicles the dialogue between Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, and Marco Polo, a Venetian traveler, wherein…

January 1, 2023

Doctor Thorne – Anthony Trollope

Considered his best work by Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne is a sensitive story, exposing Victorian tyranny and hypocrisy on high birth and social class….

December 24, 2022

The End of the Affair – Graham Greene

This is my first exposure to Graham Greene. Two of his books have been in my personal collection for about a year now, somehow…

December 21, 2022

Paris Spleen – Charles Baudelaire

Paris Spleen is a retelling of Les Fleurs du Mal in a more profound and elaborate manner. It’s more powerful with its touch on…

December 15, 2022

Les Fleurs du Mal – Charles Baudelaire

Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) is an unusual collection of poetry in its bold thematic exposition of taboo subjects and darker…

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