“He was the great love of her life you know.''Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly, 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.”― Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love I put 'Love in a Cold Climate' on my #theclassicsclub list and I thought writing a review for the first book will refresh my memory of the plot and... Continue Reading →
Book review: Katalin Street by Magda Szabó
‘But no one had told them that the most frightening thing of all about the loss of youth is not what is taken away but what is granted in exchange. Not wisdom. Not serenity. Not sound judgment or tranquility. Only the awareness of universal disintegration.’‘They had discovered too that the difference between the living and... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.” This is my first PKD book and I didn't know that this was the book that inspired the movie Blade Runner. I haven't seen the movie (sorry) so I can't really compare the two. However, I saw it as an advantage... Continue Reading →
Review: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” ― George Orwell, 1984 When a book is so well-referred and famous, I tend to be a... Continue Reading →
Review: Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Have you ever started a book hating the characters and then by the end of it, you ended up rooting and loving them? This is how I feel about Fitzgerald's 'Tender is the Night'. As I pledge to read more classics, Fitzgerald is one of the authors whose works I always want to read. The... Continue Reading →
Review: Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
I told Helen my stories and she went home and cried Reading this first line at a bookstore instantly made me rush to the cashier to pay. I wanted to sit and do nothing but found out what had happened to the narrator. Sophia is a twenty-one and naive artist living in England in the... Continue Reading →