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Book Review: "The Other Passenger" by Louise Candlish
"The Other Passenger" is something I got on my kindle feeling it was going to be one of my 'wind-down' weekend reads. In fact, I was wrong. By the end of the book my heart and mind were both racing and I was practically shaking with a strange smile across my face. I was sitting on the floor for over two hours and honestly, I didn't care. This book was just incredible and, everything added up in the end - absolutely everything. It was like someone planned this book purely to mess with me. The whole book is an act of misdirection. It's like you think that you figure out the 'secret' in the middle of the book but there is a whole next rabbit hole you're about to climb down and you don't even recognise it. You weren't really looking.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Fireworks" by Angela Carter
Angela Carter was a great author. I had a friend a few years' back that read quite a lot of Angela Carter and so, for her birthday, I got her a special edition, a beautiful copy, of "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories". It was only in university when I started reading Angela Carter because I had been told to read "The Bloody Chamber" and "The Infernal Desires" for a piece of creative writing I was doing. Nonetheless, since then, I became obsessed with her writing styles. Her plots did not much interest me but I had never seen a modern author write with such folkloric flair whilst also balancing it with this twisted, violent and graphic nature that almost sickened me.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
5 Great Books by Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood was born in the early 1900s in England. He lived through both World Wars. He not only lived through the wars, but he also befriended a bunch of great people in Hollywood. Christopher Isherwood was friends with the likes of W.H Auden and Truman Capote. He wrote a ton of great books and the more I read Christopher Isherwood, the more I have come to appreciate the writing style of his place and time.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Top 5 Paris Review Interviews
I made a habit of reading each interview in the four available volumes of the Paris Review Interviews and I came out with great insights into the writings of some of the world's most revered authors. Not just the writing though, there were great insights into their contexts and lives, the kinds of injustices and changes that were taking place during the time that they were writing their most noteable works. There are five main interviews I want to go over as being my favourites and honestly, it was difficult to choose because I was so in love with them all.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Selected Essays" by George Orwell. Top Story - February 2021.
Georgr Orwell is probably best known for his works "1984" and "Animal Farm." My personal favourite book by him was always "Down and Out in Paris and London" because of the realism involved and honestly, I wish more people read it. This book is somewhat like my favourite Orwell novel in the fact that it is based within various truths and has a criticism on a number of things. Including Orwell's work on Charles Dickens and his famous essay entitled "Shooting the Elephant" - George Orwell attempts to reason with us whilst showing his readers that these things are perhaps linked in a wider web of economics and class systems.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
The Witch and Her Ghost
“Release Me.” The whisper echoed around the room; a masculine sigh full of contempt. The dust that had long ago settled on the piles of books stacked on tables shifted as a breeze that wasn’t natural rushed in circles around the woman sitting at one of these tables. She was hunched over a large leather bound book with tiny lettering and pictures, her nose nearly pressed to page. Her long red hair was piled atop her head, though strands hung loose and brushed the paper while she read, horn-rimmed glasses balancing on the edge of her nose. She looked to be maybe in her late thirties, early forties, but the witch was certainly older than that. Much older.
By Jennie Jeanne5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Young Hearts Crying" by Richard Yates
Richard Yates, author of "Revolutionary Road" and "Easter Parade" once wrote an emotionally disturbing book called "Young Hearts Crying" and I am not going to lie, it was pretty upsetting to read. The book is about a woman called Lucy and her husband, Michael. Michael wants to be a writer after becoming one of those disillusioned young people after the second world war. Lucy is a second generation rich girl who has millions in the bank that she is saving for her children. When Laura is born as their daughter, their lives become emotionally unstable as Michael tries to justify his behaviour as a sexist, classist and often a racist whilst also practically ignoring his wife's emotional needs. So they divorce. But the story does not end there. Not for Michael anyway - who goes on to suffer emotional breakdowns amongst other losses.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Satan in Goray" by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer is probably best known for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature and writing novels such as "Love and Exile", "The Penitent", "The Family Moskat" and "Enemies: A Love Story". But there is another book that I have read by him in my attempt to read his entire bibliography - that novel is called "Satan in Goray". I have to say that this book is like none that I have ever read by him before and has seriously surprised me through its incredibly influential use of religion. Normally the Jewish identity is not as religious as we see it in this novel and honestly, it is a great turn for the author who now, writes a novel about religious hypocrisy and moral panic.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Memory Wood" by Sam Lloyd
"The Memory Wood" by Sam Lloyd is the book club pick for Richard and Judy by the time this review is being written and honestly, I have mainly enjoyed many of the Richard and Judy book club reads because a lot of them are books I would never discover otherwise. Most of my reading is classics and stuff and I like being able to discover these terrifying thriller novels but this one was different. This one was very different. Normally I am able to put the book down and reflect for a bit before I read the next part but with this one I didn't. With this one I tried to put it down and all I could think about was the well-being of Elissa, or the truth about Elijah or even whoever was holding Elissa in that underground place in the woods. Before I knew it, I had picked up the book again and spent the next five hours desperately reading it until it was finally over. I had trouble getting to sleep that night. My mind was rattling.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Winter's Wolf - Conjurer’s Counsel & Critique (Book Reviews of Indie Authors)
Winter’s Wolf, by Tara Lain "Winter Thane was raised on the two cardinal rules of werewolf existence: don’t reveal yourself to humans under penalty of death, and there’s no such thing as a gay werewolf. It’s no surprise when his father drags him from his wild life in remote Canada back to Connecticut to meet his old pack in hopes it will persuade Winter to abandon hi love of sex with human males. Of course, Dad’s hopes are dashed when they come face-to-face with the gay werewolves in the Harker pack.
By Scaylen Renvac5 years ago in Geeks
