literature
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Three little tales, Four Endings
There was a wet, hacking noise from down the carriage. Jules ducked his head to see around Kim’s shoulder, expecting an everyday subway dweller. Instead, he saw a sharply dressed man, convulsing to the carriage floor, white hair sweat-slicked against his brow.
By John Thomson5 years ago in Geeks
Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and Its Impact on my Life Reading is an inconceivably marvelous activity. All books from history books to fiction books to non-fiction to religious books is an adventure, a treasure chest waiting to be found. I am a huge lover of books and all the treasures hidden inside of them. Apart from the bible, there has been no book that has plagued my consciousness like the autobiography, I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou. This book is painfully raw and honest, and I have a lot of respect for Maya for sharing her experiences in this book in the way she did. I know why the caged bird sings has taught me so much about the struggles of black people and has inspired me to keep pushing when things get hard. I found out about Maya Angelou during an English assignment in school. I had to pick a book from a selection my teacher chose for the class to share with my fellow peers. As someone who likes to read books, a title as unique as I know why the caged bird sings was Juliet to my Romeo, a must-read choice. So I opened the book pdf unaware of the brilliance that I was about to read and how it would affect me.
By Grace Smith5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Decay of the Angel" by Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima is one of the world's most well-known Japanese authors. He has written great novels such as: "Confessions of a Mask", "The Sound of the Waves" and my personal favourite, "The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea". I have liked to focus on the relationships between adults and minors in Yukio Mishima's books - especially the relationships between a father-figure and their son or adopted son/step-son etc. In books like "Confessions of a Mask" it is revealed to us what the mask is hiding and why. This could be a reflection of the father-son relationship in which being the way the mask was would have been seen as bad and anti-traditionalist. Again in "The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea" there is a strange relationship between the father figure and his son. His son has friends and this often strengthens the secrecy the minor would keep from his father figure. This novel too, "The Decay of the Angel", investigates this father-son relationship a lot more and in vivid depth as the two of them come to terms with their own losses in the past in hopes of forming a new relationship between each other as a family.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
5 Great Books I Read in February, 2021
As you can probably tell from the way I am going about this, I am trying something different and more sustainable than last year when I would write about every twenty books I had read. This is purely because I will remember it better. When it comes to every twenty books, you actually have to work it out and stuff and honestly, my math is not great enough for me to try that often. Here, I can talk about five books that I think that you should read too and why they are so great. I'm trying to expand my reach in terms of genre and trying for myself to read more modern fiction since this is the sort of thing I want to investigate when I go into writing my PhD proposal.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Silent Patient" by Alex Michaelides
When we read thrillers, we are obviously expecting some sort of twist at the end. However, we are also expecting some facts to feel shoehorned in so that the story does not contradict itself or leaves loopholes wide open by the end. This book, however does neither of those things and yet, it is still a brilliant thriller novel. Instead, this story tells us two or three stories and as we follow each one, we have absolutely no idea how they are linked. At first, the book feels like it is jumping around but, as you get deeper and deeper into it, you realise how relevant every single little detail is and how you have completely missed the point.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Review of 'All These Monsters'
From New York Times best-selling author Amy Tintera, a high-stakes sci-fi adventure about a teen girl who will do anything to escape her troubled home--even if that means joining a dangerous monster-fighting squad. Perfect for fans of Warcross and Renegades. Seventeen-year-old Clara is ready to fight back. Fight back against her abusive father, fight back against the only life she's ever known, and most of all, fight back against scrabs, the earth-dwelling monsters that are currently ravaging the world. So when an opportunity arises for Clara to join an international monster-fighting squad, she jumps at the chance. When Clara starts training with her teammates, however, she realizes what fighting monsters really means: sore muscles, exhaustion, and worst of all, death. Scrabs are unpredictable, violent, and terrifying. But as Clara gains confidence in her battle skills, she starts to realize scrabs might not be the biggest evil. The true monsters are the ones you least expect.
By Cyn's Workshop5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Sound of the Waves" by Yukio Mishima
I have read many books by Yukio Mishima including the Penguin translation of "The Frolic of the Beasts" (which, if Penguin or anyone from there is reading this, I would appreciate you rethinking that translation because it does not read right especially for a Mishima novel), "The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea" translated by Vintage Randomhouse Publishing (my favourite Mishima novel to date), "Life for Sale", again translated by Penguin, "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", "Confessions of a Mask" and I have yet to read one on my TBR called "Forbidden Colours". When it comes to Mishima, there are very specific themes that you always look for when reading. These include but are not limited to: love and violence, soul-searching, the turbulence of emotions, truth, division and separation and finally, you will possibly see bad decisions or failed judgement as being there too. This book, even though it has all of those, is probably not Mishima's strongest novel in my opinion but definitely lets you know that the writer is Mishima through his use of themes and the way in which the characters interact and doubt themselves almost constantly.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Little Black Book
It was small and unmarked with a shine to the rich black leather cover. The side was all cream colored pages with that cute deckle edge. Out the bottom flopped a scarlet red marker holding place about a third of the way through the book. I remember it being in the journal section of Hardgrave's Book Emporium. I should let you know that the journal section is next to where they sell coffee, trust me its important for later.
By Theresa Molina5 years ago in Geeks
My Goodreads Wish List
I’ve used Goodreads for years now. It's not primarily where I go to interact with other readers (that happens mostly on Instagram and Twitter for me), but it’s a great place to record all the comings and goings of my reading life and to see how I’m doing with my challenge of getting through a certain number of books per year.
By Claire Amy Handscombe5 years ago in Geeks
