I simply could not resist purchasing more books for personal consumption. I tried my best to tighten my reins on my finances but the attraction is just too strong. So far, my 2018 is turning out to be the same old story. Yeah right, read more, buy less. I guess I just love books and […]
Tag: Book Feature
April 2018 Reading Wrap Up
In eleven years of reading, I have stuck mostly with Western authors. I have read mostly works by either British or American authors like Danielle Steel, Mary Higgins-Clark, John Grisham, Nora Roberts, J.K. Rowling among others. Back then, it was very uncommon for me to read Eastern authors. This might be due to the fact […]
Book Review # 49: The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
Book Specs Author: Nadia Hashimi Publisher: William Morrow Publishing Date: April 2017 Number of Pages: 450 pages Genre: Historical, Afghan Literature Synopsis Kabul, 2007: The Taliban rules the streets. With a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can rarely leave the house or attend school. Their only hope lies in the ancient […]
Book Review # 48: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Book Specs Author: Carson McCullers Publisher: Mariner Books Publishing Date: 2000 Number of Pages: 359 pages Genre: Bildungsroman, Psychological Fiction, Southern Gothic Synopsis Carson McCullers’ prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of […]
Book Review # 47: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Book Specs Author: Italo Calvino Translator: William Weaver Publisher: Hardcourt Inc. Publishing Date: March 2016 Number of Pages: 260 pages Genre: Postmodernist Fiction Synopsis If on a winter’s night a traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a […]
Book Review # 45: Hallowe’en Party
Book Specs Author: Agatha Christie Publisher: Harper Publishing Date: 2001 Number of Pages: 336 Genre: Suspense, Mystery Synopsis At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce – a hostile thirteen-year-old – boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, […]
Book Review # 44: Water for Elephants
Book Specs Author: Sara Gruen Publisher: Algonquin Paperbacks Publishing Date: 2006 Number of Pages: 335 pages Genre: Historical, Romance Synopsis When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands […]
Book Review # 43: Smaller and Smaller Circles
Book Specs Author: F.H. Batacan Publisher: Soho Press, Inc. Publishing Date: 2015 Number of Pages: 357 Genre: Mystery, Suspense, Philippine Literature, Crime Fiction Synopsis Payatas, a 50-acre dump in northeast Manila, is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can scavenge. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose law enforcement […]
2018 First Quarter Book Wrap-up
The first three months of 2018 has come and gone. Now it is time to look back to the first quarter of the year that was, in terms of books and reading. 2018 Reading Resolutions and Reading Achievements At the start of the year, I made a reading resolution. One of the things that I […]
2018 First Quarter Book Haul (Part II)
This is the second part of my 2018 first quarter book haul. To check the first part, click here. “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all […]
