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Book Review: "Birds Without Wings" by Louis de Bernieres
Someone on Reddit said that I should read this when I asked quite an open-ended question (which received way more replies than I thought it would). I've read Louis de Bernieres before in the form of Captain Corelli's Mandolin and yet, I never watched the movie because according to a lot of people who did it ruined the book for them and did not do the book justice at all. I enjoyed the book when I read it and so, as I continue with my journey into this author, I have to thank the person on Reddit that suggested I read Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
Which Amazing Books Do You Want to Forget to Read Again for the First Time
Readers are thinkers; to be a reader, you take the words of others, add them to your thoughts and construct new knowledge from them. We read books for various reasons, to gain more information, to learn about ourselves and for the sheer enjoyment of escaping to another world. I have always believed that some reading should be purely for pleasure. I had lost count of how many books I hated at school because I was made to read them, only to love them when I chose to read them later in life.
By Sam H Arnold4 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts
The Reddit Book Club had a new book for February and March of 2022 - Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. When I first saw it, it had to take a back-burner because I was, at the time, in the middle of some other books and a TBR as tall as I am. Ultimately, when I did read it, I started off really weirdly into the book - it was as if I wasn't sure whether I wanted to read it or whether I was only reading it because it was the book club book for those two months. At almost one thousand pages, Shantaram was about to blow my mind, but first it had to make me hate it.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
Yah Boo sucks to the walking group Part II of III
As luck would have it near where we parked the car in the centre of Lyndhurst was a book fair taking place in the community hall. We were determined to enjoy our day. This was going to be in spite of our earlier rejection from the group walk and here, just a few steps from the car, was the start of the path to that enjoyment.
By Alan Russell4 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Possession of Mr Cave" by Matt Haig
If you know, you know. I'm going through a difficult time at the moment. I'm up and down, I'm here and there, I'm sick and I'm not. But, I can assure you that I'm definitely trying with this content. Enough about me though, more about the book. Matt Haig is a great writer. Some people I have seen call The Midnight Library a really overrated book, but I thought it was written beautifully. This book we have here called The Possession of Mr Cave really hit me. It was not like anything by Matt Haig I had read before and I really liked it a lot.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
Reading "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts was an Experience.
It has washed over me all of a sudden in a Reddit thread that I need to read Shantaram. But there are also so many other books to read at this time, from reading books to work books to personal development books. But Shantaram has to fit in somewhere. I got it on my Kindle App on my phone after much thinking because I was on the bus and wanted to check it out. Now, had I seen Shantaram in the shops? Possibly, but I paid little attention to it when it came to other books. Did I know how long it was? No. On my Kindle App it simply came up with a file size and if you were to say a file size to me then you may as well be speaking in an ancient alien language - I haven't got a clue what you're talking about. Long story short; nobody told me this book was nearly a thousand pages long and whilst I was in the midst of reading other books - I felt like I'd committed some sort of crime.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "An Artist of the Floating World" by Kazuo Ishiguro
You know when you're reading a book and you come across certain sections where you think: please don't get anymore emotionally destructive and then it does? Well that is exactly how I feel whenever I read Kazuo Ishiguro. A while back, I went on an Ishiguro binge, this was around the same time The Buried Giant was released and honestly, I never actually made it on to An Artist of the Floating World for some reason. I just completely missed it. Well, now I have read it and it is so beautiful I almost started to cry by the end. I am absolutely in love with this book.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing" by Eimear McBride
I remember reading my first Eimear McBride novel entitled The Lesser Bohemians and I cannot tell you how bored I was really. I decided that I'd lay off the post-modern stream of consciousness novel for a while and move on to reading stuff I actually enjoyed. I came across A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing whilst in university and did not actually read it from the library because of the blurb kind of putting me off. When I came across it again just a few days before this review is being written - I gave in and started to read. It didn't seem so bad at first. Please note, I said at first and not all the way through - because it wasn't all the way through.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The L-Shaped Room" by Lynne Reid Banks
Writing books in some kind of dialect and making it believable can be hard. It's not so much about the way in which you drop and change letters, but also about the way the sentences are structured. In some cases, this can be detrimental to understanding the book and finding it entertaining. For example, The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon is written in dialect according to syntax mainly, and sometimes it even has dialect according to spelling. In this book, there is a lot of syntax-based dialect changes in order to make it truthful to time and place. However, I think that this actually makes the book seem more cliché than it is. I would have personally gone for something written quite standardly with other more symbolic things to point out setting and time.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
