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Questions about Cross #29, Fear No Evil Answered
As a longtime Patterson reader and Cross enthusiast, I think it would be safe to say this is genuine Patterson. Typically, Patterson doesn’t collaborate on the Cross series. The information, tone, and writing style remain the same in Fear No Evil as in the other Cross novels.
By Stephen Dalton4 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Darkness at Noon" by Arthur Koestler
When it comes to political novels involving communism, there are a few that I like which start with The Gulag Archipelago at the very top, working down through to Animal Farm and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. But with Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon - new things have been learnt, especially links to The Gulag Archipelago. It is a brilliant novel which is about your own government turning its back on you. It has brilliant extended metaphor, symbols of violence through pistols and holsters, scenes of pain, anguish and sorrow and communications that are implied to be dangerous and concerning to the overarching brutal hand of the government.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Little Demon" by Fyodor Sologub
I have read a lot of Russian Literature and among my personal favourites are The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (which I am currently analysing for a lengthy article and re-reading for the third or fourth time) which appears on my favourite books of all time list along with Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy following shortly after and then, shortly after that there is Tolstoy's War and Peace. Apart from my 'favourite books' list, I have read other Russian Literary Classics and enjoyed them, such as: The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, The Gulag Archipelago by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol and obviously, the beautiful Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Don't Look Now and Other Stories" by Daphne Du Maurier
I think I must have watched the film Don't Look Now for the first time when I was around fifteen years' old. It was a brilliant film and I thought the themes were very cleverly used, the symbolism was incredibly intelligent (especially the subtle use of the colour red) and the amazing acting was yet another plus to that. Don't Look Now as a story is a sophisticated psychological thriller filled with mind-turning descriptions in which we cannot make out that there is truly something going on here, or maybe it is happening in the character's subconscious. One thing is for sure though, if the film freaked you out - maybe you shouldn't read this book. It is absolutely psychologically disturbing when you really sit down and think about it.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
Surviving the Pandemic with Petronius, Fitzgerald, and Eliot, The Wrath of the Gods
THE COVID ERA has resulted in many unusual adaptations, new obsessions, new habits, or a relapse into old ones. My most bookish COVID interest has been rereading my grad school Latin literature, particularly Petronius, courtier to Nero and author of the Satyricon. For a long time, I wasn't sure why the Satyricon had such a special pull on me; all I knew was that it was possibly the only book that consistently made me laugh out loud, even when I was at my lowest and gloomiest, despairing about the gray life of quarantine or depressed about living in a country that seemed to be collapsing into itself.
By Nishan Sandaruwan4 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Aesthetics" by Michel Foucault
In my time, I have had to read Michel Foucault in order to complete various assignments. His work on literature, the prison system, the oppression and injustice of language and his philosophies on the way in which we live our day to day lives has opened eyes across the globe and, in a way as a reaction to his father's 'bullying' of him, has seemingly rejected the social-conservative position of which he grew up. His analysis of literature and language has to be my favourite aspects of his work because even though they are challenging to read, I must have read these parts a couple of times in order to understand in my best abilities, as to which direction he was heading.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Poems: 1962-2020" by Louise Glück
I have read many, many 'best of' poetry anthologies by many poets as I love reading poetry in between reading novels - it allows me to clear my mind. My favourites have commonly been poets from the older days, but late 20th century poets have come scarce. When it comes to Louise Glück, I had heard of her and read one or two of her poems, but I hadn't cared for her poetry all that much because it felt meaningless to me. It didn't allow me to get lost in it and it was definitely not beautifully written. However, I have had a small change of heart, even if it is not complete as it should be. I still feel like Glück's poetry seriously lacks and I question her win of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020 among other women writers such as: Svetlana Alexeivich and Olga Tokarczuk who, in my opinion, are much more versatile writers who have achieved far more in more genres.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
Autistic Woman Vs: Dracula
Now the past couple years have not been great, with many terrible things happening or else terrible things from the past have come to the surface. But what has been great, at least for me, are new opportunities for pursuing my creative ambitions. So, I would like to introduce my new series called Autistic Woman Vs. Essentially, I will be examining some popular, and unknown monsters and talking about what I would do if faced with one of them. This is not going to be a serious, deep analysis, just more silly and fun.
By Kelsey O'Malley4 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence" by Baltasar Gracián
Philosophical books filled with explanatory maxims of how to live your life in order to be free can come across sometimes like self-help books. But, there are a few that I would personally recommend as being something a little bit more than just 'help' but they also answer some deep-seated metaphysical questions about the human soul and how to keep it not just so that it is clean, but also so that it is purposeful. In the modern day, this though can be an over-saturated market in which the epitome of a bestseller means to write something as detailed as Dr. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life. But, in this text entitled The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence, I feel that there is so much more than just answering questions about the soul's purpose, but it also teaches us how to be human and why certain qualities are valued over others.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
January TBR
One of my reading goals for 2022 is to read more consistently, and to make reading a habit in my daily life. And, one of my blogging goals for 2022 is to consistently post my monthly TBRs, so I think I’d better start now! Here are the books I’m hoping to read this month;
By Elfie Riverdell4 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Sleepwalkers" by Arthur Koestler
Science was never my strong suit at school. I didn't really like studying chemistry, physics or biology and found them increasingly boring. Various Sci-Fi books then, have failed to catch me. I only got part way through the second Dune book about a decade ago before I gave up on the series because it bored me, I didn't enjoy my very first reading experience of the tales of Isaac Asimov and I was pretty much put off by Arthur C. Clarke after I learned that there was a lot of space stuff in his books. But, over time, I have come to appreciate Sci-Fi in different forms. For example: the dystopia. Books such as 1984 by George Orwell don't have a science base, but they are still considered Sci-Fi because of their presentations of the modern world (well, it's more like realism now, if you get what I mean). When I first picked up The Sleepwalkers therefore, I thought I was going to really dislike it. It turns out I was wrong.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
My 2022 Reading Goals
I have never really set myself definite yearly reading goals. This year, I decided to create a reading journal that I can actually stick to. Part of my 2022 reading journal (which you can watch me set up here) includes a space for me to include some of my reading goals for the year.
By Elfie Riverdell4 years ago in Geeks
