Book Reviews – PiyangieJay

March 13, 2025

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

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

March 13, 2025

It’s sad to have to write a negative review on a popular contemporary work like The Song of Achilles but quite honestly, I didn’t…

March 13, 2025

What I’ve come to realize about Italo Calvino is that he never disappoints the reader no matter what he writes. This is my third…

March 13, 2025

The Karamazov Brothers is a challenging novel to review because of its complex nature. Thus my review of the novel is based on my…

February 25, 2025

With 2001: A Space Odyssey, I embarked on a rare voyage to space. Space has always been a fascinating mystery to me, yet, I…

February 24, 2025

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

February 22, 2025

A Chess Story is a complex short story. In these few pages, a story unfolds as a game of chess. The world champion in…

February 17, 2025

Dear Marcel, I finished Time Regained – the final volume of your In Search of Lost Time. And with it, I’ve come to the…

February 12, 2025

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…