Annie Kapur
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Book Review: "The Room in the Attic" by Louise Douglas
So, Kindle Unlimited books are back on the menu. I wanted to read a paperback thriller, the kind you would find at the travel shops at train stations. However, I wasn't willing to spend the money on a buy-one-get-one-free deal on one book I really wanted and another book I just got to make up the deal. The hack is this: a lot of these books are available on Kindle Unlimited. I found out this hack today, shortly after another woman complimented me on my t-shirt. It was black and had the logo for The Rocky Horror Picture Show on it in giant lettering.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "We Are Water" by Wally Lamb
Some years ago someone recommended that I read the writer Wally Lamb and that was strangely because I was carrying around a copy of The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry. I have no idea what these two writers have to do with each other but I remember the person saying that these two were two of the quintessential modern American writers. Though I thoroughly disagree, it would take me years to actually remember this encounter. I saw a big book by Wally Lamb on a library shelf and stood there wondering about when I'd heard someone talk about this author before. It would come to me a few days after I borrowed the book.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity (Ungeduld des Herzens), published in 1939, is the Austrian author’s only completed novel. Known primarily for his novellas and biographies, Zweig embarked on this extended work during a time of personal and political turmoil. Having fled his homeland due to the rise of Nazism, Zweig was living in exile when the novel was completed.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Wild Irish Girl" by Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Owenson, known professionally sometimes as Lady Morgan, was a woman writer of the early 1800s and was born in Ireland in the 1770s or 1780s. Her novel The Wild Irish Girl is known as a feminist masterpiece, publishing under her real name also meant she made some enemies with people who found the intellect of the female character scandalous. But that would only reflect the intellect and wit of Lady Morgan herself. Upon the publication of The Wild Irish Girl, there were also other books in her bibliography being admired by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Personally, I thought this novel was a blast.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Hanging Garden" by Patrick White
I had no idea that this book was unfinished because the author died before completing it. Patrick White had physically declined but not mentally and so, still worked on his novels. He refused hospitalisation in his last weeks and died at his home at the age of 78. He received letters of appreciation from the likes of Salman Rushdie and is often considered to be one of the great writers of the 20th century. Honestly, after reading The Hanging Garden, that statement makes a lot of sense. Though the novel is unfinished, it is still a grand masterpiece that covers some harrowing themes. It is written beautifully.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "A Dead Man in Deptford" by Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess is probably best known for his book A Clockwork Orange and yet, there is so much more to him than that. His final book A Dead Man in Deptford is about Christopher Marlowe - the Renaissance playwright and spy. Famously, Marlowe died in what people believe was a bar fight in 1594 at the age of 29. In Burgess' book, we see the life of the Cambridge graduate spy detailed in witty dialogue, references to Ovid and clandestine relationships. The copy I found at the library may be all tattered but I can honestly say that I probably enjoyed reading this more than the first time I read A Clockwork Orange at 17.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "High Crime Area" by Joyce Carol Oates. Top Story - July 2025.
Yes, it's another JCO book and yes, it's another short story anthology. Why? Well, I've been to a new library and the only one I haven't read in terms of JCO novels from this place is called High Crime Area. I hope I get some more because I honestly do not have the money to buy all of her books. Perhaps one or two, but she hasn't written one or two has she? She's still writing more as we speak and well - I'm never going to have enough money at this rate. Let's take a look at High Crime Area, a short story anthology by Joyce Carol Oates.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Sandwich" by Catherine Newman
So yet again, I'm back with another cheap Kindle find and it's been absolutely scorching in the UK. Normally, I go for a walk almost every day, but the other day when it was super hot, I didn't mainly because I didn't want to feel like I'd been set on fire. UK heat is definitely different because in the USA, the houses are built with AC and are built to allow for heat to escape. In the UK, buildings are probably a thousand or so years older and were built to never let heat escape ever. Anyways, let's move on to the book Sandwich by Catherine Newman...
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Books of Jacob" by Olga Tokarczuk
I think by now we all realise that Olga Tokarczuk is probably one of the most prolific writers of the age. My most recent read of one of her books has been The Empusium which has quite a few references to a popular Thomas Mann novel. I've also read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead which was pretty good too. Now, I've got on with Books of Jacob which I admit took me longer to read that I had hoped because I was reading it in between other books rather than just on its own. Let's take a look at what this book is all about...
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Love in a Wych Elm and Other Stories" by H.E Bates
I haven't read much H.E Bates. I think it's been roughly five or six years at least since I read Fair Stood the Wind for France. H.E Bates can be a quite interesting writer and when I noticed the book in the library which was labelled under short story anthologies - I couldn't help but think if it would be any good. For those of you who don't know, Bates was an author during the mid-20th century and wrote a whole host of novels and anthologies. For some reason this is only my second reading of any of his works. And so, let's take a look at Love in a Wych Elm and Other Stories by H.E Bates.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Home is Where the Bodies Are" by Jeneva Rose
Ooh I've been patiently waiting for the right time to read this book and let me tell you, it did not disappoint. Home is Where the Bodies Are is an intense scrutiny of truth and lies, set in two different timeliness and covering about four different people. We have alternating narratives in the present day between three adult children named Beth, Nicole and Michael. Then, we have a narrative from 1999 from their mother, Laura. Concerning their father's disappearance into thin air, this book really gets twisted. I absolutely loved it.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
