Book Specs Author: Jamil Jan Kochai Publisher: Viking Publishing Date: January 2019 Number of Pages: 275 pages Genre: Bildungsroman Synopsis Twelve-year-old Marwand’s memories from his previous visit to Afghanistan six years ago center on his contentious relationship with Budabash, the terrifying but beloved dog who guards his extended family’s compound in the rural village of […]
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Book Review # 106: Snow Falling on Cedars
Book Specs Author: David Guterson Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries Publishing Date: October 1995 Number of Pages: 460 Genre: Legal Story, Fiction, Novel Synopsis San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, […]
Book Review # 105: Middlemarch
Book Specs Author: George Eliot Publisher: Everyman Publishing Date: 1997 Number of Pages: 747 Genre: Novel, Bildungsroman, Realism, Classic Synopsis Subtitled ‘A Study of Provincial Life’, George Eliot’s greatest novel is a tale of many marriages centering on the town of Middlemarch. A complex web, Middlemarch society is woven of myriad lives: the ardent idealist Dorothea […]
Book Haul: January 2019
Okay, I did make a promise to buy read more books instead of buying more; it is actually part of my 2018 and 2019 Reading Goals and Resolutions. I swear, I tried my best to keep that promise. But how can I resist buying more when they’re practically begging me to buy them *innocent sobs*? […]
January 2019 Book Wrap-Up: Goalsetting
So, 2019 has officially started. With the new year comes new and endless possibilities. It also represents a fresh start, 365 fresh blank pages which we are going to fill with memories, with experiences, and of course, books read. It is also a time to set goals for the coming year. It is in this […]
Book Review # 104: The Fountainhead
Book Specs Author: Ayn Rand Publisher: Signet Book Publishing Date: 1943 Number of Pages: 687 pages Genre: Romance, Philosophical Synopsis This is the story of an intransigent young architect, of his violent battle against the world’s standards and conventions and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who loved him passionately yet struggled to […]
Book Review # 103: The House of Broken Angels
Book Specs Author: Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher: Little Brown and Company Publishing Date: March 2018 Number of Pages: 326 pages Genre: Domestic Fiction, Hispanic Fiction Synopsis In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But […]
What’s In My Bookshelf Tag
It was just a couple of days ago since I made a book tag but here I am again, doing a new one, the What’s in my Bookshelf Tag. I came across this book tag while searching for an interesting content. I came across it through Naty’s Bookshelf. It immediately caught my attention and so I decided […]
Book Review # 102: The Catcher in the Rye
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 […]
New Year Book Tag
As I have always stated, doing book tags is a great way for me to let other fellow readers know more about me and my tendency, at least vis-a-vis books and reading. Book tags never get old, so here I am, doing yet another book tag. (I hope that my New Year Book Tag is […]
