Fiction – Page 2 – PiyangieJay

February 25, 2025

2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke

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…

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

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…

December 7, 2024

Barnaby Rudge is the first historical novel Dickens wrote. The other is A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens wrote only two historical novels and…