Book Specs Author: J.D. Salinger Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publishing Date: May 1991 Number of Pages: 214 pages Genre: Bildungsroman, Literary Realism Synopsis The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep […]
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My 2019 Top 20 Reading List
So, it is that time of the year again… When I prepare a list of 20 books that I am most looking forward to during the year. Ever since encountering a similar list about two years ago, I started doing my own version, starting in 2017. This is the third straight year that I am […]
Book Review # 98: The White Tiger
Book Specs Author: Aravind Adiga Publisher: Atlantic Books Publishing Date: 2009 Number of Pages: 321 pages Genre: Picaresque Fiction, Mystery Synopsis Meet Balram Halwai, the “White Tiger”: Servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer… India: The Light and the Dark Before I even begin realizing it, 2018 has shaped up to be the year of the Man Booker […]
2018 Book Wrap: A Magical Journey Through Books
2018 Reading Stats Books Read: 63 Books Favorite Read of the Year: Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie Least Favorite Read of the Year: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway Number of Pages Read: 26,277 Pages (Average of 417 pages) Longest Book Read: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1386 pages Shortest Book Read: Of Mice […]
My 2018 18 Most Memorable Book Quotes (Part II)
Readers, 2018 is about to draw to a close, hence, it is now time to look back to the year that was, at least in terms of reading. After having had a slow year in 2017, I picked up the momentum in 2018. In total, I was able to read 63 books in twelve months. […]
My 2018 18 Most Memorable Book Quotes (Part I)
Readers, 2018 is about to draw to a close, hence, it is now time to look back to the year that was, at least in terms of reading. After having had a slow year in 2017, I picked up the momentum in 2018. In total, I was able to read 63 books in twelve months. […]
My 2018 Eight Not-So Favorite Reads
Readers, 2018 is about to draw to a close, hence, it is now time to look back to the year that was, at least in terms of reading. After having had a slow year in 2017, I picked up the momentum in 2018. In total, I was able to read 63 books in twelve months. […]
My 2018 Top 10 Most Notable Books
Readers, 2018 is about to draw to a close, hence, it is now time to look back to the year that was, at least in terms of reading. After having had a slow year in 2017, I picked up the momentum in 2018. In total, I was able to read 63 books in twelve months. […]
Book Review # 95: Infinite Jest
Book Specs Author: David Foster Wallace Publisher: Bay Back Books Publishing Date: February 2016 Number of Pages: 1,079 (982 pages of narrative, 96 pages of notes and errata) Genre: Metafiction, Satire, Post-modernism Synopsis Set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the most endearingly screwed-up families in modern fiction, […]
Quotable Quotes # 21: The Sea, The Sea
At the onset, I wasn’t really that keen on Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea. However, the more I ruminate on it and its profound but obscured messages, I begun to appreciate the 1978 Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. Although it felt gloomy and bleak at times, I cannot help but be fascinated by the depth of language […]
