PiyangieJay

PiyangieJay

Just another WordPress site

  • About
  • Home
  • Book Reviews
    • Classics
      • Fiction
      • Nonfiction
      • Poetry
      • Plays
      • Mystery
      • Fantasy
      • Philosophy
    • Contemporary
      • Fiction
      • Fantasy
      • Crime/Mystery
  • My Writing
    • Critical Essays
    • Fiction
    • Poetry

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

This Tolstoyan masterpiece is one of the best-written books on War and its effect on people’s lives. The War is the Napoleonic war where Russia was invaded by a strong French army conquering Moscow, and the subsequent defeat and flight of the conquering army.

Read More

Maurice – E.M. Forster

Maurice is said to be Forster’s homage to same-sex love. It is so. Belonging to the same lot, Forster must have felt a strong need to express himself through fiction.

Read More

Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

This is one of the most beautiful and best books that is ever written about human suffering; a true masterpiece.

Read More
July 1, 2023

Italian Journey – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In 1786, acting on an impulse, Goethe takes a journey to Italy. He visits many Italian cities including Venice, Verona, Naples, Sicily, and Rome….

July 1, 2023

Time Shelter – Georgi Gospodinov

The 2023 Booker Prize winner, Time Shelter, is an extraordinary book that touches mainly on our relations with history and our own past. Combining…

June 1, 2023

The Geurmantes Way (In Search of Lost Time #3) – Marcel Proust

The Guermantes Way is the third volume of In Search of Lost Time. The volume sets the stage for the story-proper to unfold, after…

May 25, 2023

The Red and the Black – Stendhal

Stendhal wrote The Red and the Black with a twofold intention. The first is to present a psychological portrayal of an ambitious provincial young…

May 12, 2023

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

This book turned out to be quite different from what I expected. From the synopsis, I gathered the novel to be a coloured woman’s…

May 5, 2023

Germinal – Emile Zola

Germinal is one of the most moving novels written about the sufferings of the working class. Zola’s undisguised sympathy for them flows abundantly throughout…

April 1, 2023

Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the best work I’ve read after Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, which I found profoundly informative to amateur writers like…

April 1, 2023

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

This was a nightmare of a read. I’ve been postponing this read for ever so long, and now I feel perhaps I should have…

March 24, 2023

Within a Budding Grove/In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time #2) – Marcel Proust

Within a Budding Grove or In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is the second part of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost…

March 9, 2023

A Disguise – Piyangie Jay Ediriwickrema

The dark fashion glasses, Blue or purple blusher strokes, Full lips with blood red lipstick – She is one of a kind Behind closed…

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 7 8 9 … 26 Next

Recent Posts

  • The Library of Babel – Jorge Luis Borges
  • Oresteia – Aeschylus
  • Antigone – Sophocles
  • Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
  • Medea – Euripides

Recent Comments

    Archives

    • October 2025
    • August 2025
    • June 2025
    • May 2025
    • April 2025
    • March 2025
    • February 2025
    • January 2025
    • December 2024
    • May 2024
    • February 2024
    • January 2024
    • December 2023
    • November 2023
    • July 2023
    • June 2023
    • May 2023
    • April 2023
    • March 2023
    • February 2023
    • January 2023
    • December 2022
    • November 2022
    • October 2022
    • September 2022
    • August 2022
    • July 2022
    • June 2022
    • May 2022
    • April 2022
    • March 2022
    • February 2022
    • January 2022
    • December 2021
    • November 2021
    • September 2021
    • August 2021
    • July 2021

    Categories

    • Book Reviews
      • Classics
        • Fantasy
        • Fiction
        • Mystery
        • Nonfiction
        • Philosophy
        • Plays
        • Poetry
      • Contemporary
        • Crime/Mystery
        • Fantasy
        • Fiction
    • My Writing
      • Fiction
      • Poetry
    • Uncategorized

    Categories

    • Book Reviews
    • Classics
    • Contemporary
    • Crime/Mystery
    • Fantasy
    • Fantasy
    • Fiction
    • Fiction
    • Fiction
    • My Writing
    • Mystery
    • Nonfiction
    • Philosophy
    • Plays
    • Poetry
    • Poetry
    • Uncategorized

    Latest Reviews

    • The Library of Babel – Jorge Luis Borges
    • Oresteia – Aeschylus
    • Antigone – Sophocles
    • Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
    • Medea – Euripides
    © PiyangieJay 2021 All Rights Reserved.