Easy reading is damn hard writing.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Monthly Archives: February 2012
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Book #701 Reviewer: readlearnwrite Please give a warm welcome to our newest reviewer, readlearnwrite. The Plot Josef K has just turned 30. He is a senior bank clerk. He is arrested by two unidentified agents for an unidentified crime.The arresting … Continue reading
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Book #54 Reviewer: Inspirational Reads Archie and Samad are the unlikeliest of friends. Archie is white, middle-class,with a lean towards insipidness. Samad is a Muslim, devout in his beliefs and sensitive to how foreign his race and religion make him. … Continue reading
Quote of the Week
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Book #86 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily (first published 2008) This is my first foray into my Booklitzer Challenge. If this novel is anything to go by, it truly will be a challenge to start and finish each one in it’s … Continue reading
The Week Ahead
Welcome to this edition of The Week Ahead. This week we will be starting off with Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible. This is set in the Belgian Congo, or Zaire or the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the late … Continue reading
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Book #437 Reviewer: t, of as long as i’m singing. I’ll admit it. I saw the movie first. Look, it was the eighties, and I was a punk kid. And in my circle, it was almost expected that you would … Continue reading
Quote of the Week
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
